A Song of Ice and Fire

"The oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both."

"“Her name is Brienne,” Jaime said. “Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?” Her broad homely face turned red. “Yes.” ”Oh, good,” Jaime said. “I only rescue maidens.”"

"If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you."

"Some would say it's a poor king who crowns himself with bronze, Your Grace" "Bronze and iron are stronger than gold and silver"

"When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say "I am the king" is no king at all."

"There's a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid."

"Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner."

"An ant who hears the words of a king may not comprehend what he is saying ... If sometimes I have mistaken a warning for a prophecy, or a prophecy for a warning, the fault lies in the reader, not the book."

"Only a starving man begs bread from a beggar."

"It does not matter how brave or brilliant a man is, if his commands cannot be heard."

"A man is never so vulnerable in battle as when he flees. A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up."

"A man who fears battle wins no victories ..."

"A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever."

"I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head ..."

"Is there anything so disgusting as frozen sweat?"

"Arya was tired of making for Riverrun. She had been making for Riverrun for years, it seemed, without ever getting there. Every time she made for Riverrun, she ended up someplace worse."

"I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivlary. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young."

"Well, you gave the singers something to make rhymes about, I suppose that's not to be despised."

"The wind ran salty fingers through her hair."

"The Fingers are a lovely place, if you happen to be a stone."

"In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people: The players and the pieces."

"Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him."

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

"The gods sometimes let us glimpse the future as we lay dying."

"We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads."

"“Have they told you who I am?”... “Some dead man.”"

"Dany stared at herself in silence. Is this the face of a conqueror? So far as she could tell, she still looked like a little girl."

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust."

"If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?"

"Sometimes the short road is not the safest ... Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it."

"Strangers are not so strange in a port as they are in little villages."

"It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man."

"Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne."

"“Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I’ll say, ‘No, you have the wrong man, I’m a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.’” Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all."

"The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved."

"A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon."

"Outside the flakes drifted down as soft and silent as memory."

"Outlaws were better at hiding than honest men."

"The gods gave me no gift but birth, and they stinted me there."

"Silence is a prince's friend. Words are like arrows ... once loosed, you cannot call them back."

"Girl or boy, we fight our battles ... but the gods let us choose our weapons"

"Elsewhere is a big place."

"No promise was as solemn as one sworn to the dead."

"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."

"A swordsman should be as good as his sword."

"The more you give a king the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible."

"Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle."

"Name the cow what you will, so long as the milk flows."

"That was what men wanted, wasn't it? Soft helpless women that they needed to protect."