“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Tyrion replied with a shrug that accentuated the twist of his shoulders. “Speaking for the grotesques,” he said, “I beg to differ.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?” “It is.” Jon took her hand. “Good,” she whispered. “I… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“night and he felt tired beyond his years. “None of us is ever ready,” he said. “For knighthood?” “For death.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Speaking for the grotesques,” he said, “I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” Jaime” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As well ask what good is life, what good is death? If the day comes when you would find me again, give… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I am a creature of grief and dust and utter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Death is not the worst thing,” the kindly man replied. “It is His gift to us, an end to want and pain.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Barristan Semly was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark… — 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