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

by George R.R. Martin

When they look at our banner, all they see is a tall black ship flying on the wind. They close their eyes to the onion.

Deep

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

So many kings, my tongue grows weary of the word.

Do you think he would like me better if I wore a hair shirt and never smiled?

Or else I shall take my ships where I am better loved.

Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then,

It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel.

He loved me no more than he had to, nor I him.”

“The maester tells me that we have one hundred seventeen ravens on hand.

Im jealous

lips pledged to silence.

The world will know of my claim, and of Cersei’s infamy.”

Robert’s bastard. The one he fathered on my wedding night, in the very bed they’d made up for me and my bride.

Robert oml

I did not make you a knight so you could learn to mouth empty courtesies. I have my lords for that.

Your people will not love you if you take from them the gods they have always worshiped, and give them one whose very name sounds queer on their tongues.”

A frightened man is a beaten man.

my lord father once told me that hard places breed hard men, and hard men rule the world.”

with skin as splotchy as oatmeal,

A ward in name, a hostage in truth.

“Did I please milord?” “Well enough,” he told her. “It tasted salty,” she murmured. “Like the sea?” She nodded. “I have always loved the sea, milord.”

Blegh

Sylas Sourmouth

A crown was worth a little mud and horseshit on his breeches, he supposed.

“What is dead may never die,”

The ride is long enough without your magpie chatterings.”

“My daughter has taken an axe for a lover,”

“No man should live longer than his teeth.”

Her mother had died bringing her into the world while the storm screamed outside.

Balerion … his fire was as black as his scales, his wings so vast that whole towns were swallowed up in their shadow when he passed overhead.”

Aura

The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not.”

A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.

Everything was white, as if the people who lived here had known nothing of color.

“I fear no ghosts. Dragons are more powerful than ghosts.”

“There are ghosts everywhere,” Ser Jorah said softly. “We carry them with us wherever we go.”

Why should

Syrio Forel had said that a dull blade was like a lame horse.

“Lord Beric’s sigil is a purple lightning bolt on a black field.”

Cheugy

Suddenly Arya remembered the morning she had thrown the orange in Sansa’s face and gotten juice all over her stupid ivory silk gown.

W

“By night all banners look black,”

the drifting red embers outnumbered the stars.

“Young boys and old men die the same.”

I hope he falls on his face and cuts off his tongue.

Everything smelled of blood and smoke and iron and piss, but after a time it seemed like that was only one smell.

the taste was mud and water and worms and life.

this is barefaced naked villainy,

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

And meantime, fight fire with fire.”

“You’d have to be a fool to want to bed Selyse Florent,”

Most of them believe that if a woman eats rabbit while pregnant, her child will be born with long floppy ears.”

“Whores love to gossip,

Then im a whore

“Fuck you, dwarf.” “That’s Shae’s task.”

We make swords as sharp as song, armor such as a god might wear. Not this.”