George RR Martin
Quotes
Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.
No promise was as solemn as one sworn to the dead.
The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures.
She is brave as well. She had to be, to survive the life she's lived.
If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?
Silence is a prince's friend. Words are like arrows ... once loosed, you cannot call them back.
Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.
What was given once can be given again.
The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
Sometimes the short road is not the safest ... Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
Dany stared at herself in silence. Is this the face of a conqueror? So far as she could tell, she still looked like a little girl.
Flies are the dead man's revenge.
