A Storm Of Swords Quotes & Sayings

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it's hard to think in 22-year increments since that's as long as you've been alive. But it's really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles. — Brad Feld

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will. — Andrew Williams

Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn.
The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life? — George R R Martin

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. — George R R Martin

The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'In this light she could almost be a beauty', he thought. 'In this light she could almost be a knight'. — George R R Martin

He was born in grief, my queen, and that shadow hung over him all his days. — George R R Martin

And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all. — George R R Martin

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead. — George R R Martin

In private life, human beings spend a great deal of time in seclusion behind closed doors (e.g., in bathrooms and bedrooms) and other partitions designed to shield their bodies from prying eyes. Scientists have determined that too much visual monitoring can be harmful to human health. — David B. Givens

Lord Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold. — George R R Martin

I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that? — George R R Martin

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness. — George R R Martin

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me? — George R R Martin

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends. — George R R Martin

'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes. — Bryan Cogman

Do as you're told, sweetling, it won't be so bad. Wolves are supposed to be brave, aren't they? — George R R Martin

I learned that everything is right where we are. No matter our pain or distress, all of life is in whatever moment we wake to. I could clearly see and feel how our fear of death makes us run, though there is nowhere to go. Yet mysteriously, I learned that there's a ring of peace at the center of every fear, if we can only get to it. Every time I shower now, I try to remember that we can-not live fully until we can first accept our eventual death. Otherwise, we will always be running to or running from. Only when we can accept that we are fragile guests on this Earth, only then will we be at home wherever we are. — Mark Nepo

You look different now. Like a proper little girl."
"I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns."
"Nice, though. A nice oak tree. — George R R Martin

The number one element on the list for changing and improving one's lifestyle is definitely in the area of health for most people. Good health paves the way for even more awesomeness to happen all-the-way-around. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

You are in difficulty," she observed.
"He will not come," Kraznys said.
"There is a reason. A dragon is no slave. — George R R Martin

What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person. — Donna Brown

Not everyone who spoke to you friendly was really your friend. — George R R Martin

Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran."
"Yesterday you said you loved them."
"Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say."
Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them."
"Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose.
"Because they're different," he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and fire."
"If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one."
"One," his sister agreed, "but over wrinkled. — George R R Martin

New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans. — Billy Tauzin

Fire - A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons - as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with — George R R Martin

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men! — William Shakespeare

his snores sounded like ducks mating. — George R R Martin

I never win anything," Dolorous Edd complained. "The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice depp proof of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?"
"Was it a long fall?" Green wanted to know. "Did landing in the pool of water save his life?"
"No," said Dolorous Edd. "He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks. — George R R Martin

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. — George R R Martin

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same. — George R R Martin

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need. — Wendy Kopp

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. 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 in our steads. — George R R Martin

Whisper a word in the wrong ear and before you knew it you'd be short a head. — George R R Martin

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold. — George R R Martin

You know nothing, Jon Snow. — George R R Martin

No, don't, don't cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. — George R R Martin

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed. — Ty Cobb

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys — George R R Martin

Gendry had his own secret, though even he didn't seem to know what it was. ========== A Storm of Swords (George R. R. Martin) — Anonymous