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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3088201 | He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a8eb843 | Beyond the Wall the monsters live, the giants and the ghouls, the stalking shadows and the dead that walk, but they cannot pass so long as the Wall stands strong and the men of the Night's Watch are true. So go to sleep Brandon, my baby boy, and dream sweet dreams. There are no monsters here. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 294ada3 | Choosing ... it has always hurt. And always will. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5275305 | Hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 96c8e15 | Can a man be brave when he is afraid?- Bran asked after a moment's thought. -"It's the only time he can be brave,"- his father said." | got | George R.R. Martin | |
| 0ace857 | times may change, but men do not. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 35d9e5a | No godless man may sit the Seastone Chair! | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 797e69f | They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say. | hope humiliation love rejection unrequited-love | George R.R. Martin | |
| 76bcbde | It were the black one," the man said, in a Ghiscari growl, "the winged shadow. He come down from the sky and ... and ..." | a-song-of-ice-and-fire daenerys-targaryen george-r-r-martin | George R.R. Martin | |
| a2e425e | Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you. | fire-and-blood love ocean sailor sea | George R.R. Martin | |
| bbe28e6 | Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats. | grrm tuf-voyaging | George R.R. Martin | |
| ad4894b | 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 flowery. "My lady mother told me, but I . . . I thought it would be different." "Different how?" "I don't know. Less . . . less messy, and more magical." Queen Cersei laughed. "Wait until you birth a child, Sansa. A woman's life is nine parts m.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b442dbf | Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear. | crowd fear | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1742345 | Harwin's eyes went from her face to the flayed man on her doublet. "How do you know me?" he said, frowning suspiciously. "The flayed man . . . who are you, some serving boy to Lord Leech?" For a moment she did not know how to answer. She'd had so many names. Had she only dreamed Arya Stark? "I'm a girl," she sniffed. "I was Lord Bolton's cupbearer but he was going to leave me for the goat, so I ran off with Gendry and Hot Pie. You have to k.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 612d4c4 | Oh, I think that Lord Tyrion is quite a large man," Maester Aemon said from the far end of the table. He spoke softly, yet the high officers of the Night's Watch all fell quiet, the better to hear what the ancient had to say. "I think he is a giant come among us, here at the end of the world." Tyrion answered gently, "I've been called many things, my lord, but giant is seldom one of them." "Nonetheless," Maester Aemon said as his clouded, m.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 84e4ee0 | The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back." | poetic | George R.R. Martin | |
| 70bac09 | I left the next morning... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ed32b94 | Searching is not finding. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 70d5a4e | The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a468fa5 | Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| efa564b | I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones. | humor | George R.R. Martin | |
| 647b9ff | The wolf pup loved her, even if no one else did. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 620af59 | If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2619a48 | Even now, he was a Stark of Winterfell, and his grief and his rage froze hard inside him. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 4d7c92a | They had ridden past the end of the world; somehow that changed everything. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b9a424f | I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face." He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinching her painfully. "And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 363341b | Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord--" "They won't," Tyrion said. "They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other." | differences likeness | George R.R. Martin | |
| 34805be | A grey man," she said. "Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?" "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 960a10a | Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e9c7a1e | It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ebf71b6 | Ned looked down gravely at the sword in his hands. "This is no toy for children, least of all for a girl. What would Septa Mordane say if she knew you were playing with swords?" "I wasn't playing," Arya insisted. "I hate Septa Mordane." "That's enough." Her father's voice was curt and hard. "The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman. Your mother and I have charged her with t.. | inspirational stubborn tomboy | George R.R. Martin | |
| 813d042 | I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother | George R. R. Martin | ||
| ce49f63 | Perhaps magic was once a mighty force in the world, but no longer. What little remains is no more than the wisp of smoke that lingers in the air after a great fire has burned out, and even that is fading. Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone. The dragons are no more, the giants are dead, the children of the forest forgotten with all their lore. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b713ac9 | There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen" | lazy old-age stairs steps | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4126f01 | R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dark and full of terrors. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 71861ba | Stone, I must be stone, I must be Casterly Rock, hard and unmovable. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b37b0c2 | Pain was as much a part of knighthood as were swords and shields. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 81948e9 | My great beard. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d3bc233 | Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn't seem right to drown them. | a-song-of-ice-and-fire arya cute humor | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3ddbfd0 | Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and Mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd it. -Arya Stark | arya arya-stark asoiaf boar-hunting game-of-thrones got hawk hawks hunger ladies | George R.R. Martin | |
| fbd850f | Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2e347e8 | Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well--soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fa910cb | My lady," Tyrion said. "You are lovely, make no mistake, but ... I cannot do this. My father be damned. We will wait. The turn of a moon, a year, a season, however long it takes. Until you have come to know me better, and perhaps to trust me a little." His smile might have been meant to be reassuring, but without a nose it only made him look more grotesque and sinister." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 43bd0ce | No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. | ironmen northmen | George R.R. Martin |