George R.R. Martin · 639 pages
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“You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
“I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes.”
“A valiant deed unsung is no less valiant.”
“Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son...'
Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight.”
“In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces.”
“He might as well wish for another thousand men, and maybe a dragon or three.”
“Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well.”
“I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark”
“So go to sleep, my little Brandon, my baby boy. You needn’t fear. There are no monsters here.”
“Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof.”
“He rode through the streets of the city, down from his hill on high, O’er the wynds and the steps and the cobbles, he rode to a woman’s sigh. For she was his secret treasure, she was his shame and his bliss. And a chain and a keep are nothing, compared to a woman’s kiss.”
“Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.” He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. “I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. You leave me no choice but to appeal to the gods. I demand trial by battle.”
“If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you.”
“Tommen looked back to Ser Kevan. "Can I seal them now, Great-Uncle?" Pressing his royal seal into the hot wax was his favorite part of being king, so far.”
“A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.”
“Her big hand wrapped tight around Oathkeeper. "I will. And I will find the girl and keep her safe. For her lady mother's sake. And for yours.”
“The Others never come when the sun is up.”
“Ser Gregor, Dunsen, Polliver, Raff Dolcecuore, Messer Sottile e il Mastino. Ser Ilyn, ser Meryn, regina Cersei, re Joffrey." Erano i nomi dell'odio del suo odio.”
“Aside from her aged maid, Sansa’s only companion was the Lord Robert, eight going on three.”
“glutton. When Ami was caught in the stables with no fewer than three”
“Dany said nothing. There was nothing to say.”
“The outriders came on them an hour from the Green Fork, as the wayn was slogging down a muddy road.”
“Stay," she said. "Rule. And be a queen.”
“I can't forgive you," she said. "I can't.”
“The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice deep pool of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?” “Was it a long fall?” Grenn wanted to know. “Did landing in the pool of water save his life?” “No,” said Dolorous Edd. “He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks.”
“Never believe anything you hear in a song.”
“It must be you or no one. The Wall is yours, Jon Snow.”
“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”
“Alle waren jetzt damit beschäftigt, den Tisch zu decken, und niemand außer ihr bemerkte, was das Baby tat. Es drückte seine Lippen in das Innere von Avrams Hand, blökte ein sanftes und angenehmes Ba-ba-ba und genoss mit seinem ganzen Sein den Klang und das Kitzeln, das es wohl in den Lippen spürte. Auch in Oras Hals und Mund schwebte ein anregendes Summen, ihre Lippen spürten es auch, und in ihr murmelte es stimmlos ba-ba-ba.”
“We are the sum of our lives and not simply pieces of them. We are the whole of our time in this world.”
“Calling a tongue piecing 'cosmetic' is a bit of a stretch, since you don't get one because it makes you look better. You get one because you're so desperate for affection that you're willing to gruesomely harm yourself to advertise how well you suck dick.”
“But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop?”
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