George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers."
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"All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Flies are the dead man's revenge."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn"
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"His wits have gone dark as his eyes"
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Lem glowered. "Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foraging. the wolves as well, so why not us? no one robbed you, dog. You just been good and foraged."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey"
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Are you certain they never cut your member off" Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madness. "Well, you are a free man now, but if you will have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear. If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller, until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?"
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"The light that brings the dawn."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"The living have no place at the feasts of the dead."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
"Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you."
George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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