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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ac0843f | I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d0ffdd5 | He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. | feelings guilt | George R.R. Martin | |
| e509dbd | Better a beggar than a thief. | thief | George R.R. Martin | |
| d3413a3 | How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? A thousand eyes and one. | thousand-eyes-and-one | George R.R. Martin | |
| 57e94ab | Yes, all Lannisters are lions, and when a Tyrell breaks wind it smells just like a rose. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dd0e18c | Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 53f05f4 | 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 nothing, eternal emptiness, blackness, nonexistence. In our living there has been no purpose, no poetry, no meaning. Nor do our deaths possess these qualities. When we are gone, the universe will not long remember us, and shortly it will be as.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d36c918 | Lem glowered. "Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foraging. the wolves as well, so why not us? no one robbed you, dog. You just been good and foraged." | justice | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8a8b3c2 | Can a bird hate? Jon had slain the wildling Orell, but some part of the man remained within the eagle. The golden eyes looked out on him with cold malevolence. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1ff4344 | Kings are supposed to put the realm before their sisters. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a55346b | Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8a34078 | This is folly, Tyrion,' declared Lord Tywin. 'Speak to the matter at hand. You are not on trial for being a dwarf. 'That is where you err, my lord. I have been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dd52d09 | Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 488055b | 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 discover they don't know how to strike up a conversation, and wouldn't have the courage to do so if they did. There's no grandeur to that kind of loneliness. No purpose and no poetry. It's loneliness without meaning. It's sad and squalid and pathe.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8c4faeb | Tyrion pushed forward. "MY LORDS! " he shouted. He had to shout, to have any hope of being heard. His father raised a hand. Bit by bit, the hall grew silent." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3451c21 | I was a lot better at starting stories than I was at finishing them. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 396ecf8 | Ser Gregor, it went, Dunsen, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei. She ended it with valar morghulis, | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a9b33de | If I am ever Hand again, the first thing I'll do is hang all the singers," said Tyrion, too loudly." | tyrion | George R.R. Martin | |
| c644f8c | I will not eat Craster's food, he decided suddenly. "I broke my fast with the men, my lord." Jon shooed the raven off Longclaw. The bird hopped back to Mormont's shoulder, where it promptly shat. "You might have done that on Snow instead of saving it for me," the Old Bear grumbled. The raven quorked." -- | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 04c6fa6 | A valiant deed unsung is no less valiant. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9f137e3 | Ser Cleos raised a shout. When Jaime looked up, Brienne was lumbering along the clifftop well ahead of them, having cut across a finger of land while they were following the bend in the river. She threw herself off the rock, and looked almost graceful as she folded into a dive. It would have been ungracious to hope that she would smash her head on a stone. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8d1f550 | His stomach could not tolerate the snails and lampreys and other rich food Captain Khorane so relished, and after his first meal at the captain's table he spent the rest of the day with one end or the other dangling over the rail. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9a698e1 | It is no easy thing to slay a dragon, but it can be done. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9178266 | My life was writ in red, in blood and wine. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9b36092 | A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey" | evil murder villain | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3cf9aef | i have done things i am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my house and my father's name.. but to kill your own sire? how could any man do that? - give me a crossbow and pull down your breeches, and i'll show you. gladly. - you think this is a jape? - i think life is a jape. yours, mine, everyone's. | life tyrion | George R.R. Martin | |
| ed3f9cc | The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 429afc7 | Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 438acf2 | Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3e417dd | she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath. | Dow Mossman | ||
| d1f3ebb | What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a thief in the night, Become a dog on the run And have I fallen so far, And is the hour so late That nothing remains but the cry of my hate, The cries in the dark that nobody hears, Here where I stand at the turning of the years? If there's another way to go I missed it twenty long years ago My life was a war that could never be won They gave me a number and murdered Valjean When they .. | Jean Vljean | ||
| 951e296 | There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a very good living in advertising by exercising this capability, lyric poetry was left to untalented screwballs who had to shriek for attention and compete by eccentricity. | C.M. Kornbluth | ||
| 4f7bf86 | The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce. | materialism | H.W. Brands | |
| 9da13af | Wolves are brotherly," he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too." | family love wolves | Jean Craighead George | |
| 8d0f1c5 | Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| d7b2c0c | John lowered the book he'd been reading. "Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?" "I know you were listening, " I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. "You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 1fae1f5 | A lot of stuff, I've noticed, gets manipulated by writers when it's shown on television--even so-called reality television--and makes us think we're supposed to think and act and look certain ways, when the true reality is totally the opposite. Often there's no "right way" to look or think or act, but because we've been so conditioned by the media to think so, we actually mistrust our own better judgment." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 63fa8e1 | What to Do During Algebra O what to do during Algebra! The possibilities are limitless: There's drawing, and yawning, and portable chess There's dozing, and dreaming, and feeling confused. There's humming, and strumming, and looking bemused. You can stare at the clock. You can hum a little song. I've tried just about everything to pass the time along. | i-hate-math meg-cabot the-princess-diaries what-to-do-during-algebra | Meg Cabot | |
| c3a0f8a | I'd leave too, but i still had half a beer left. You can't just leave a beer like that. It's un-American | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2bed32d | The discovery of a corpse's head on campus has worked as an expedient in getting the administrative staff to work before ten, despite the impending blizzard. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 27b2cda | I'll tell you what kind of girl I'm not," I said crankily. "I am not the kind of girl who's looking to share her room with a member of the opposite sex. Understand me? So either you move out, or I force you out. It's entirely up to you. I'll give you some time to think about it. But when I get back here, Jesse, I want you gone." | susannah-simon suze-simon the-mediator | Meg Cabot | |
| 9e14526 | Nice girls finish last. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 30d0a00 | And you know what? Maybe Michael didn't write those notes. And maybe he doesn't think I'm the Josiest girl in school.But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that's all that matters to me. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 3f8203a | I'm Suze Simon," I said. "And you thought being dead was bad? Buddy, your eternal nightmare's only just begun." | Meg Cabot |