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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 419c4e8 | She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all. | childhood growing-up maturity | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5255caa | In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 718c538 | There was this to be said for weddings over battles, at least; it was less likely that someone would cut off your nose. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6e99626 | Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck! | king the-north the-wall | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8c97f73 | He wondered how many lives had been snuffed out by that fart. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f7bb741 | Ride with them, eat with them, fight with them, for as long as it takes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 09cd7d2 | Here, m'lord." She put her hands over his eyes from behind. "Can you guess what I'm wearing?" "Nothing?" "Oh, you're so smart," she pouted, snatching her hands away. "How did you know?" "You're very beautiful in nothing". "Am I?" She said. "Am I truly?" "Oh yes." "Then shouldn't you be fucking me instead of talking?" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8f521c3 | A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's are prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| bef85d7 | That made her laugh until she screamed. "Mad," someone said, "she's lost her wits," and someone else said, "Make an end," and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she'd done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don't, don't cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| cb178b6 | There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 359a5ac | With scarcely a moment's respite, they began to play a very different sort of song. No one sang the words, but Catelyn knew "The Rains of Castamere" when she heard it. Edwyn was hurrying toward a door. She hurried faster, driven by the music. Six quick strides and she caught him. And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1e9211e | Old Nan used to tell stories about knights and their ladies who would sleep in a single bed with a blade in between them for honor's sake, but he thought this must be the first time where a direwolf took the place of the sword. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b8fdd21 | Ser Rodrik shouted "Winterfell!" and rode to meet him, with Bronn and Chiggen beside him, screaming some wordless battle cry. Ser Willis Wode followed, swinging a spiked morningstar around his head. "Harrenhal! Harrenhal!" he sang. Tyrion felt a sudden urge to leap up, brandish his axe, and boom out, "Casterly Rock!" but the insanity passed quickly and he crouched down lower." -- | George R.R. Martin | ||
| aeaea27 | Give me your word that you'll tell the queen what she wants to hear when she comes calling." "If I did, my word would be as hollow as an empty suit of armor. My life is not so precious to me as that." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 05f3a9f | They have been with you every day, my lord. Sansa prays quietly, but Arya ..." He hesitated. "She has not said a word since they brought you back. She is a fierce little thing, my lord. I have never seen such anger in a girl." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| eaff134 | Dark wings, dark words," Ned said grimly." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8578461 | You have a bold tongue, little man. One day someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 37cc520 | No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing and a ghost light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew that it was sharper than any razor. | cool description descriptive imagery the-other | George R.R. Martin | |
| 228a274 | He told me that a maester's collar is made of chain to remind him that he is sworn to serve," Jon said, remembering. "I asked why each link was a different metal. A silver chain would look much finer with his grey robes, I said. Maester Luwin laughed. A maester forges his chain with study, he told me. The different metals are each a different kind of learning, gold for the study of money and accounts, silver for healing, iron for warcraft. .. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a27f542 | My mind is my weapon. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 4c7cf97 | I have a gift for you," the dwarf said to Bran. "Do you like to ride, boy?" Maester Luwin came forward. "My lord, the child has lost the use of his legs. He cannot sit a horse." "Nonsense," said Lannister. "With the right horse and the right saddle, even a cripple can ride." The word was a knife through Bran's heart. He felt tears come unbidden to his eyes. "I'm not a cripple!" "Then I am not a dwarf," the dwarf said with a twist of his mou.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b3000b3 | Every inn in the city is full, and the whores are walking bowlegged and jingling with each step. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f7d5b21 | All the best swords have names." "Like Ice," she said. She looked at the blade in her hand. "Does this have a name? Oh, tell me." "Can't you guess?" Jon teased. "Your very favorite thing." Arya seemed puzzled at first. Then it came to her. She was that quick. They said it together: "Needle!" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 42289eb | Will he now? We'll see. You tell him this, m'lord. You tell him he's bound on marching the wrong way. It's north he should be taking his swords. North, not south. You hear me? | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 38f81a5 | The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5946c25 | The king eats, Robert had said, and the Hand takes the shit. How he had laughed. Yet he had gotten it wrong. The king dies, Ned Stark thought, and the Hand is buried. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c603240 | Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6a0f0cb | I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 428430f | The madness of mercy," Ned admitted. "Ah," said Varys. "To be sure. You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ffb440a | When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c82b7f6 | Honor set you on the kingsroad ... and honor brought you back. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2ba48c0 | The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6856146 | Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f019299 | Kill the boy and let the man be born. | man | George R.R. Martin | |
| c464c9a | 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 lightly across the big dark nipple, back and forth and back and forth until she felt it stiffen. When she glanced up, Taena's eyes were open. "Does that feel good?" she asked. "Yes," said Lady Merryweather. "And this?" Cersei pinched the nipple .. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d44032d | Samwell Tarly looked at him for a long moment, and his round face seemed to cave in on itself. He sat down on the frost-covered ground and began to cry, huge choking sobs that made his whole body shake. Jon Snow could only stand and watch. Like the snowfall on the barrowlands, it seemed the tears would never end. It was Ghost who knew what to do. Silent as shadow, the pale direwolf moved closer and began to lick the warm tears off Samwell T.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 843f5e5 | Ser Jorah was not a handsome man. He had a neck and shoulders like a bull, and coarse black hair covered his arms and chest so thickly that there was none left for his head. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 420514f | racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e29041e | Tyrion wondered whether this was the last sunrise he would ever see ... and whether wondering was a mark of cowardice. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b8a804e | Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a4cf3ff | If I look back, I am lost. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dd60cd6 | Her brother Rhaegar had died for the woman he loved. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c5b5597 | No doubt he was smiling. He smiled a lot, as if the world were a secret joke that only he was clever enough to understand. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 99a5e51 | Family, Duty, Honor, | George R.R. Martin |