The loneliness of people who sit alone in furnished rooms in crowded cities, because they’ve got nowhere to go and no one to talk to. The loneliness of guys who go to bars to meet someone, only to dis...
The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.
The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes.
The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, yo...
The day before last, Jon had made the mistake of wishing he had hot water for a bath. Cold is better, she had said at once, if you’ve got someone to warm you up after. The river’s only part ice yet, g...
The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
The Westeros of Aegon’s youth was divided into seven quarrelsome kingdoms, and there was hardly a time when two or three of these kingdoms were not at war with one another. The vast, cold, stony North...
The Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep the blood line pure.
The Liars believe in no afterlife, no God. We see the universe as it , Father Damien, and these naked truths are cruel ones. We who believe in life, and treasure it, will die. Afterward there will be...
The Father protects his children, the septons taught, but Davos had led his boys into the fire. Dale would never give his wife the child they had prayed for, and Allard, with his girl in Oldtown and h...
That’s what they always ended up saying: But I’m just sad. Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.
That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.
Thank you, sweet lady.' Ser Dontos lurched clumsily to his feet, and brushed earth and leaves from his knees. 'Your lord father was as true a man as the realm has ever known, but I stood by and let th...
Ten years a wold, and you land here and think to prince about the islands, but you know nothing and no one. Why should men fight and die for you?'' ''I am their lawful prince,'' Theon said stiffly. ''...
Tell me that none of this troubles you, Jon...and I'll name you a liar, and know I have the truth of it.Jon drew himself up, taut as a bowstring. And if it did trouble me, what might I do, bastard as...
Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes.- Jon Snow
Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you
Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend...