George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons Quotes
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.
The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.
Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.
It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.
Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.
Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.
He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.
When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.
All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself.
These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.
Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light
And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.
Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.
But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.
Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.
