A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

by George R.R. Martin

“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”

“What good is this, I ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

“Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”