She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would...
She wanted to see if it would be as easy with a woman as it had always been with Robert. Ten thousand of your children perished in my palm, Your Grace, she thought, slipping a third finger into Myr. W...
She sighed, staring down at the foothills of Cobalt Mountain. I have been summoned to the Paeolinas’ court to attend the coronation after-ball. I was unaware the Queen was ill. The Queen was not aware...
She narrowed her eyes. What is our heart’s desire?Vengeance. His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. Justice. Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with...
She could feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue was a taste like honey and anise and cream, like mother’s milk and Drogo’s seed, l...
Sansa lowered her head. The blood frightened me.The blood is the seal of your womanhood. Lady Catelyn might have prepared you. You’ve had your first flowering, no more.Sansa had never felt less flower...
Sansa cried herself to sleep, Arya brooded silently all day long, and Eddard Stark dreamed of a frozen hell reserved for the Starks of Winterfell.
Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty...
Quiet as a shadowLight as a featherQuick as a snakeCalm as still waterSmooth as summer silkSwift as a deerSlippery as an eelStrong as a bear
Purple with rage, the king lashed out, a vicious backhand blow to the side of the head. She stumbled against the table and fell hard, yet Cersei Lannister did not cry out. Her slender fingers brushed...
Por que lê tanto ? (...)- Olhe-me e diga o que vê. O rapaz olhou-o com suspeita- Isto é algum truque ? Vejo você. Tyrion Lannister Tyrion suspirou. - Você é notavelmente gentil para um bastardo, Snow....
Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.
Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King’s Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler...
Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the sin...
One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.
One day on a ranging we brought down a fine big elk. We were skinning it when the smell of blood drew a shadowcat out of its lair. I drove it off, but not before it shredded my cloak to ribbons. Do yo...
Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to...
Not this time, Sam. I dreamed . . . in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, these past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my...
Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend. - Arya