“when there are no battles to fight, men start to think about hearth and harvest.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Men were not meant to leave the earth. Spend too much time in the clouds and you never want to come back… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Why would Petyr lie to me?” “Why does a bear shit in the woods?” he demanded. “Because it is his nature.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I swear it by earth and water,” said the boy in green. “I swear it by bronze and iron,” his sister said.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He was a veteran of a hundred rangings by now, and the endless dark wilderness that the southron called the haunted forest… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Why does a bear shit in the woods? he demanded. Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As he stood outside the armory looking up, Jon felt almost as overwhelmed as he had that day on the kingsroad, when he'd seen it for the first time. The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“My trees, they said, you can’t eat them apples. My stream, you can’t fish here. My wood, you’re not t’ hunt. My… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As he strode across the strand, a drowned man returning from a call of nature stumbled into him in the darkness. “Damphair,”… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I swear it by earth and water,"said the boy in green. "I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said. "We… — 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
“He smelled like grass and warm earth, like smoke and semen and horses.” — 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
“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 same as kissing a man, much less a king. Sansa wondered what Megga would think about kissing the Hound, as she had. He’d come to her the night of the battle stinking of wine and blood.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“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
