George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor."
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"A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor."
"الجبان قد يكون شجاعاً كأي رجل، إذا لم يكن هناك ما يخاف منه. وكلنا نؤدي واجبنا، إذا لم يكن لذلك ثمن. ما أسهل أن نسير حينئذٍ في درب الشرف."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?"
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast'Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?"
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Nothing burns like the cold."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Winter is coming."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie. Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all. Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking"
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,"
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one."
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?"
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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