“It hurts so much, she thought. Our children, Ned, all our sweet babes. Rickon, Bran, Arya, Sansa, Robb… Robb… please, Ned, please,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Talking gargoyles and prophecies in the sky. I am an old done man, grown giddy as a child again.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“What do I have? A life to live? Work to do? Children to raise, lands to rule, a woman to love? “You… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I’ve fucked you, you’re likely with child. It’s not every man who… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“But a dragon could not feed a hungry child nor help a dying woman’s pain. And who would ever dare to love… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I want her, he realized. I want Winterfell, yes, but I want her as well, child or woman or whatever she is.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud. You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Ned looked down gravely at the sword in his hands. “This is no toy for children, least of all for a girl.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“She wanted to see if it would be as easy with a woman as it had always been with Robert. Ten thousand… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Now we will begin the dance. Remember, child, this is not the iron dance of Westeros we are learning, the knight's dance,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Megga couldn’t sing, but she was mad to be kissed. She and Alla played a kissing game sometimes, she confessed, but it wasn’t the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“On the morning after battle the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike. How much can a crown be worth when a crow… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
