Badass Asoiaf Quotes & Sayings

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young

Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song? — Anthony Ryan

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness. — Riane Eisler

It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol. — Barbara Mertz

Before we light the Yule log, I want to give you this. You have been a very good girl this year, and a wonderful daughter." He held something out to her. Jaclyn hadn't noticed he was carrying anything. She looked down to see he was holding a branch with green leaves and white berries. She gasped, "It's beautiful!" and took the branch from his hand. "The berries reminded me of the winter snow," her father said softly. Jaclyn nodded. "But the green leaves belong in the summer!" She looked up at him. "The trees have long since lost their leaves. Where did you find it?" "I had to travel very far to find it." he told her, leaning in to add, "It's magical. — Laurel O'Donnell

The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all. — Jennifer Egan

For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you. — Etgar Keret

I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized that this was, you know, there was magic there, there was magic to be had, you could lose yourself in it, it was a refuge, it was joy, it was all of those things. — Hans Zimmer

Jumpin' Jehosafats, I think I just creamed my pants,"
Annette whispered, staring at Luke. Luke's eyes locked on me. He lifted his hand and crooked his finger.
"I was wrong about before. Now, I've definitely creamed my pants," Annette breathed. — Kristen Ashley

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have been entertaining the idea, Sky. Believe me. It's just a huge step that can't be undone once it's taken."
"What if it's a step you don't
want undone, though? What if it's a step that just makes you want to take another step, and another step, until you're full-on sprinting?"
She laughs. "That's exactly what I'm afraid of. — Colleen Hoover

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance. — Julian Fellowes