“Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk. And losing battles too.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken. That” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered, while the highborn were held for ransom.” — 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
“Not all of us can be as bold as Jaime, but there are other ways to win wars.” — 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… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Weddings have become more perilous than battles, it would seem.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You don’t feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running… — 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
