Ivy > Ivy's Quotes

“I have a gift for order and a taste for chaos.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“You must miss your father terribly, I know. Lord Eddard was a brave man, honest and loyal...but quite a hopeless player.' He brought the seed to his mouth with the knife. 'In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people The players and the pieces.'
'And I was a piece?' She dreaded the answer.
'Yes, but don't let that trouble you. You're still half a child. Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players.' He at another seed. 'Cersei, for one. She thinks herself sly, but in truth she is utterly predictable. her strength rests on her beauty, birth, and riches. Only the first of those is truly her own, and it will soon desert her. I pity her then. She wants power, but has no notion what to do with it when she gets it. Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Our first job is always to survive. I won’t apologize for it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Sweets aren’t good for me. I’ve been told riding will make me mannish and the wind will chafe my skin and age me. I know all the things that aren’t good for me. And I want them just the same.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers. But we who would wield power adorn ourselves in flowers to hide the sting of our thorns.'
Zoya had ignored these lessons, often to her detriment. She was all thorns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The trick of acting is to believe the lie yourself, at least a little. Acting begins in the body. If you want to convince anyone of anything, you start with the way the body moves. It tells a thousand stories before you ever open your mouth.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“One could plot violent espionage and still hope for dessert.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“He leaned back and looked Ned full in the face, his grey-green eyes bright with mockery. “You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move. Look at you now. You know why you summoned me here. You know what you want to ask me to do. You know it has to be done . . . but it’s not honorable, so the words stick in your throat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
“It sets a dangerous precedent.”
“For avoiding pain?”
“For avoiding life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It has to be a…”

He wanted to say a coincidence, but he couldn’t make himself believe that. Over the past few years he’d seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. But he’d never yet run across a coincidence.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“"Who would you be without me, Snow? A blue-eyed virgin who'd never thrown a punch."”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“The problem with waiting is that it makes us weak.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.”
― Kristin Cast, Chosen

“Do you see now why I recognized you? You’re my favorite story. I feel like I’ve known you for a long time.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

“The thing about fate, Magnus:
even if we can’t change the big picture,
our choices can alter the details. That’s
how we rebel against destiny, how we
make our mark. What will you choose to
do?”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“The living should smile, for the dead cannot.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Don’t ask me to sacrifice the hope of the living for the comfort of the dead.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“How could he be so cruel and still so human?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Tell me what you meant, about hearing the gods.”

Osha studied him. “You asked them and they’re answering. Open your ears, listen, you’ll hear.”

Bran listened. “It’s only the wind,” he said after a moment, uncertain. “The leaves are rustling.”

“Who do you think sends the wind, if not the gods? (...) They see you, boy. They hear you talking. That rustling, that’s them talking back.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“My words lied. My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth, but you were not seeing.”

“Watching is not seeing.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones