A man who won't listen can't hear.
A man who won't listen can't hear.
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.
So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.
Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.
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.
A true man does what he will, not what he must.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought bravely. And Rhaegar died.
All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.
Mother, I want to see him fly!
Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.
Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.
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.
Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost.
I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life if full of possibilities
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow. - Tyrion Lannister
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.
And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.
My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.
Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.
And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.
I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.
Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.
I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry?
That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
Never ask me about Jon; he is my blood and that is all you need to know! Ned was different. He brought his bastard home, and called him son.
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. And this is only hranna, child. There are hundred kinds of grass out there, grasses as yellow as lemon and as dark as indigo, blue grasses and orange grasses and grasses as rainbows.
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever then the men who laugh at them
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