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283c832
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Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.
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George R.R. Martin |
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31b32ca
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Barristan Semly was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men - quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failing that afflicted le..
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the-kingsguard
the-white-cloaks
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George R.R. Martin |
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333f891
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He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name."
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George R.R. Martin |
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34837c0
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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 defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.
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George R.R. Martin |
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ac82752
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The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
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George R.R. Martin |
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806e0ba
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You are a woman, my lady," the Greatjon rumbled in his deep voice. "Women do not understand these things." "You are the gentle sex," said Lord Karstark, with the lines of grief fresh on his face. "A man has a need for vengeance." "Give me Cersei Lannister, Lord Karstark , and you would see how gentle a woman can be," Catelyn replied."
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cersei-lannister
vengeance
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George R.R. Martin |
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ab4b4f9
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The air smelled of paper and dust and years.
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George R.R. Martin |
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e624adc
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We had to throw rocks," she said miserably. "I told her to run, to go be free, that I didn't want her anymore. There were other wolves for her to play with, we heard them howling, and Jory said the woods were full of game, so she'd have deer to hunt. Only she kept following and finally we had to throw rocks. I hit her twice. She whined and looked at me and I felt so 'shamed, but it was right, wasn't it? The queen would have killed her." "It..
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nymeria
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George R.R. Martin |
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e30ec40
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Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.
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death
flies
whisper
soft
kings
speak
dangerous
die
monsters
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George R.R. Martin |
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a5269cd
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I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.
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George R.R. Martin |
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c4cbae0
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
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George R.R. Martin |
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8b617a6
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En las manos adecuadas, un libro puede ser tan peligroso como una espada.
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George R.R. Martin |
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6b06b7c
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I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
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oaths
jaime-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
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6076244
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We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow"
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George R.R. Martin |
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9a9657c
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My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark." "I hear he was taller." "Not after Joff took off his head."
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George R.R. Martin |
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4b7dde3
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The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.
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George R.R. Martin |
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5f44d69
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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 singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her..
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George R.R. Martin |
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627cd4f
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What the King dreams, the Hand builds.
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George R.R. Martin |
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e21a8ae
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The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.
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George R.R. Martin |
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b5557ba
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Nasty thing, a crossbow. How many men you kill with that?" "Nine." His father counted for at least that many, surely. Lord of Casterly Rock, Warden of the West, Shield of Lannisport, Hand of the King, husband, brother, father, father, father."
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George R.R. Martin |
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430083c
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Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon's teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
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George R.R. Martin |
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507cb44
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I'm not a lady, Arya wanted to tell her, I'm a wolf.
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George R.R. Martin |
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2d29e7c
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Men see what they expect to see.
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George R.R. Martin |
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cf3a459
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You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted.
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George R.R. Martin |
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cb755cd
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I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you into dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.
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George R.R. Martin |
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13eb756
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Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.
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George R.R. Martin |
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988eddb
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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.
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present
time
humanity
past
epistemology
trees
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George R.R. Martin |
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90859a0
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She did not come to him, however. he tough.
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George R.R. Martin |
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9918532
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Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She has you there."
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George R.R. Martin |
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cda3ca7
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Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?
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George R.R. Martin |
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1692807
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And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.
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George R.R. Martin |
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59734f9
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Tyrion turned to his nephew. "Joffrey, it is past time you called on Lord Eddard and his lady, to offer them your comfort." Joffrey looked as petulant as only a boy prince can look. "What good will my comfort do them?" "None," Tyrion said. "Yet it is expected of you. Your absence has been noted." "The Stark boy is nothing to me," Joffrey said. "I cannot abide the wailing of women." Tyrion Lannister reached up and slapped his nephew hard acr..
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tyrrion-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
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f2be030
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One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle. "One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard. "You have no poetry in your heart, ser." "You have shit upon your shoulder."
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poetry
shit
cynicism
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George R.R. Martin |
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0b9de8a
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Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
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George R.R. Martin |
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41fa611
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An old septon once claimed I was living proof of the goodness of the gods. (...) Why, if the gods were cruel, they would have made me my mother's firstborn, and Doran her third. I am a bloodthirsty man, you see. And it is me you must contend with now, not my patient, prudent, and gouty brother. -- Oberyn Martell
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George R.R. Martin |
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448c5ff
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The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.
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men
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George R.R. Martin |
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83f949f
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At the Trident, those brave men Viserys spoke of who died beneath our dragon banners - did they give their lives because they believed in Rhaegar's cause, or because they had been bought and paid for?" Dany turned to Mormont, crossed her arms, and waited for an answer. "My queen," the big man said slowly, "all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the Trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. Hi..
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George R.R. Martin |
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e19c100
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Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
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George R.R. Martin |
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9ca57ef
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I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I.
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George R.R. Martin |
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313d54b
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I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.
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George R.R. Martin |
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f0e7a62
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Valar Morghulis- All men must die
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George R.R. Martin |
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af724c8
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What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth
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George R.R. Martin |
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aa3397a
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Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.
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gold
silver
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George R.R. Martin |
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229c0df
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Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.
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George R.R. Martin |