Do you believe in ghosts, Maester? [Jaime] asked Qyburn.The man's face grew strange. Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a m...
Do as they bid you...but in your heart, remember who and what you are.
Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark where I am so why should I fear the darkness? Yet I cannot help but wonder what will follow, when the...
Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that’s even darker.
Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile.
Dany Bring me that book I was reading last night. She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and other places. The fat leather-bound volume was full of songs and stories from the Seven Ki...
Cersei wondered what it would feel like to kiss another woman. Not lightly on the cheek, as was common courtesy amongst ladies of high birth, but full upon the lips. Taena's lips were very full. She w...
Cersei cupped the other woman’s breast. Softly at first, hardly touching, feeling the warmth of it beneath her palm, the skin as smooth as satin. She gave it a gentle squeeze, then ran her thumbnail l...
Calm as still water. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine.
But the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
Brothers, oh brothers, my days here are done, the Dornishman’s taken my life, But what does it matter, for all men must die, and I’ve tasted the Dornishman’s wife!
Bran had told himself a hundred times how much he hated hiding down here in the dark, how much he wanted to see the sun again, to ridehis horse through wind and rain. But now that the moment was upon...
Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defe...
Black or red, a dragon is still a dragon. - Illyrio Mopatis
Black Wind was Asha’s longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. Stark is grey and Gr...
Beneath your skin are muscles. Learn to use them. It is your face. Your cheeks, your lips, your ears. Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls. A smile should be a servant, and c...
Beneath it his skin was milky white, serene and unlined, ready to begin anew, ready for the world to write upon it.
Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.'' ''Lady Catelyn, you are wrong.'' Brienne regarded her with eyes as blue as her armor. ''Winter will never come for the likes of us. Shou...
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.
Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted.