01c. 1971 ADPower resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
03c. 1971 ADNo mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
04c. 1971 ADI have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.(Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark)George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
07c. 1971 ADThe gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
10c. 1971 ADThere was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
11c. 1971 ADRemember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
12c. 1971 ADChildren are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
14c. 1971 ADThey were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
15c. 1971 ADGirl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
16c. 1971 ADSo now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
17c. 1971 ADCan you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
19c. 1971 ADHe was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
20c. 1971 ADA great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
21c. 1971 ADThen a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
22c. 1971 ADSummer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
23c. 1971 ADFree folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
24c. 1971 ADDay followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite as much.George R.R. Martin / quote ↗
