George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

"worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits."
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"worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh"
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)"
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.”“Even the lies?”“Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…"
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
"Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow."
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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