George R.R. Martin, A Storm Of Swords Quotes

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

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.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

The fire that burns against the cold.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

Begging for help never gets you any.

Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. "See, wench? We know each other too well.

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees, " Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

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.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.(Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark)

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

The light that brings the dawn.

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

A man who hates music can't be trusted.

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.

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

One King means peace.

A sweet fruit for a sweet fight.

Beauty can be treacherous.

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.

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn