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Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He’ll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he’s copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.”
“And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons,” the tale always ended. “For dragons fly.”
He could not touch Cersei, he knew. Not yet, not even if he’d wanted to, and he was far from certain that he did.
Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”
He wanted to laugh; he wanted to weep; most of all, he wanted Shae.
“What good is this, I ask you? He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”
Any gods so monstrous as to drown my mother and father would never have my worship, I vowed.
One day our great-uncle Ser Harbert told me to try a different bird. I was making a fool of myself with Proudwing, he said, and he was right.”
Queensguard
“No man should live longer than his teeth.” The others agreed.
Crazy thought spoken aloud.
“Why, she looked a bit like you, Daenerys.” He bowed low. “Sleep well, my queen.” Dany shivered, and pulled the lionskin tight about her. She looked like me. It explained much that she had not truly understood. He wants me, she realized. He loves me as he loved her, not as a knight loves his queen but as a man loves a woman.
Ewwwwww nooooo poor Dany
Snow often meant death in the north.
The world is strange, Jon thought. Two hundred brave men had left the Wall, and the only one who was not growing more fearful was Sam, the self-confessed coward.
Why would people run off and leave their homes and everything? What could scare them so much?
And he dares to accuse me of incest, adultery, and treason!” Only because you’re guilty. It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
a boy of twelve laying out clothing on the bed; his squire, such that he was. Podrick Payne
PODRICK IS 12?!
“Well, he’s not as smart as a horse, that’s for certain.” A few of the White Harbor lads poked each other and laughed. “Hodor.” Beaming genially, Hodor looked from one Frey to the other, oblivious to their taunting. “Hodor hodor?”
Poor Hodor :(
“I have a cure for grief under my furs.”
I should use this line on Aimee sometime...
When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.”
“the gods hate incest. Look how they brought down the Targaryens.”
Look around you, and take a good whiff. They’re all liars here … and every one better than you.”
kindled
That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered, while the highborn were held for ransom. Remind me to thank the gods that I was born a Lannister.
Brother couples with sister in the bed of kings, and the fruit of their incest capers in his palace to the piping of a twisted little monkey demon.
Should be the logline for this book.
Pride comes before prayer,
21st century America, gays vs Christians
“We swear it by ice and fire,” they finished together.
One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong. But not today. It could not be today.
When there are no battles to fight, men start to think of hearth and harvest,
“Ser Colen,” Catelyn said to her escort, “who is this man, and why do they mislike him so?” Ser Colen frowned. “Because he is no man, my lady. That’s Brienne of Tarth, daughter to Lord Selwyn the Evenstar.”
Why was I still shocked at this revelation?
“Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.”
“Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.
woah
“He’s afraid of you, Chett. On the Sisters, we have a name for them like him.” “I know all the names. Save your breath.” He walked away, Ghost at his side.
Being the bigger person will always be cool.
Ghost laid his head on his paws and went to sleep by the fire. Jon stretched out beside him, grateful for the warmth.
So cute
Your heart is noble, Jon, but learn a lesson here. We cannot set the world to rights. That is not our purpose.
There were women on the Iron Islands—not many, but a few—who crewed the longships along with their men, and it was said that salt and sea changed them, gave them a man’s appetites.
A.K.A. a lesbian
