Quotes from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“I'm not a lady, Arya wanted to tell her, I'm a wolf.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“She should be more frightened herself, she knew. She was only ten, a skinny girl on a stolen horse with a dark forest ahead of her and men behind who would gladly cut off her feet. Yet somehow she felt calmer than ever had in Harrenhal. The rain had washed the guard's blood off her fingers, she wore a sword across her back, wolves were prowling through the dark like lean grey shadows, and Arya Stark was unafraid. Fear cuts deeper than swords, she whispered under her breath, the words that Syrio Forel had taught her, and Jaqen's words too, valar morghulis.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Hoooodor," said Hodor, swaying. "Hooooooodor, hoooooodor, hoDOR, hoDOR, hoDOR." Sometimes he liked to do this, just saying his name different ways, over and over and over.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“For Phyllis who made me put dragons in”
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“Some people hurt others just because they can.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“I want her, he realized. I want Winterfell, yes, but I want her as well, child or woman or whatever she is. I want to comfort her. I want to hear her laugh. I want her to come to me willingly, bring me her joys and her sorrows and her lust.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Still, night falls for all of us in the end, and too soon for some.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Sobbing, Sam took another step. This is the last one, the very last, I can't go on, I can't. But his feet moved again. One and then the other. They took a step, and then another, and he thought, They're not my feet, they're someone else's, someone else is walking, it can't be me.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“I wish it was all a dream. Then I could wake up.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Clegane would grunt from time to time, and once Tyrion heard him mutter a curse, but otherwise he fought in a sullen silence.
Not Oberyn Martell. "You raped her," he called, feinting. "You murdered her," he said, dodging a looping cut from Gregor's greatsword. "You killed her children," he shouted, slamming the spearpoint into the giant's throat, only to have it glance off the thick steel gorget with a screech.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“A veces, los más grandes estúpidos son más astutos que los que se ríen de ellos.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we bever mindedn if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she use to saym you have to visit them from time to time.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Might have punctured a lung, if he had a lung. Most trees don't, as a rule.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“The world grows a little darker every day.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“There are fights no sword can win, Catelyn wanted to tell him, but she feared the king was deaf to such words.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“«Hay peleas que no se pueden ganar con la espada»”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Jaime watched her eyes. Pretty eyes, he thought, and calm.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Tyrion stared up at his father's hard green eyes with their flecks of cold bright gold. "Guilty," he said, "so guilty. Is that what you want to hear?"
Lord Tywin said nothing. Mace Tyrell nodded. Prince Oberyn looked mildly disappointed. "You admit you poisoned the king?"
"Nothing of the sort," said Tyrion. "Of Joffrey's death I am innocent. I am guilty of a more monstrous crime." He took a step toward his father. "I was born. I lived. I am guilty of being a dwarf, I confess it. And no matter how many times my good father forgave me, I have persisted in my infamy.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Seventeen, and beautiful, and already a legend. Half the girls in the Seven Kingdom want to bed him, and all the boys want to be him.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“Eres mío, igual que yo soy tuya. Si tenemos que morir, moriremos. Todos los hombres mueren, Jon Nieve. Pero
antes vamos a vivir.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“expected. Lord Tywin did not suffer disloyalty in his vassals. He had extinguished the proud Reynes of Castamere and the ancient Tarbecks of Tarbeck Hall root and branch when he was still half a boy. The singers had even made a rather gloomy song of it.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“I am still half a world from Westeros, Dany reminded herself, but every hour brings me closer. She tried to imagine what it would feel like, when she first caught sight of the land she was born to rule. It will be as fair a shore as I have ever seen, I know it. How could it be otherwise?”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

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