“Life is not a song sweetling. You may learn that one day to your sorrow.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The song is sung, the wine is spilled, the wench is pregnant.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He has a song,” the man replied. “He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Ser Loras lusts for glory as real men lust for women, the least the gods can do is grant him a death… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“All night i have been making songs for you in my head. A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Aegon,” he said to a woman nursing a newborn babe in a great wooden bed. “What better name for a king?” “Will… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A fool sings what he will, the master told his anxious princess, "You must not take his word to heart. On the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The Bear and the Maiden Fair A bear there was, a bear, a bear! All black and brown, and covered with hair! The bear! The bear! Oh, come, they said, oh come to the fair! The fair? Said he, but I'm a bear! All black, and brown, and covered with hair! And Down the road from here to there. From… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“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