George RR Martin

The sun and moon and stars had been gone so long that Asha was starting to wonder

The dead should not eat better than the living.

You are fighting shadows when you should be fighting the men who cast them.

Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.

"Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been."

Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?"

That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter."

A horse has an honest smell.

I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.

A gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor.

The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.

Men do not give up their gods so easily.

"This is going to end badly."

"You say that of everything."

"Aye, m'lord. Usually I'm right."

A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother.