George R.R. Martin, A Feast For Crows Quotes
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.
In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.
Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.
My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs.
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.
Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.
The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
