They laughed at him, but they didn’t know, they didn’t know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he’d see somebody different, somebody to give his things to,...

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.” –Prince Oberyn of Dorne.

This is no toy”, he told her. “Be careful you don’t cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.””Girls don’t shave,” Arya said”Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa’s legs?

…if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

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.

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you’ll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what’s gone into it.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Not a queen,” said Dany. “A khaleesi.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts,” he declared. “I doubt if he could kill a duck.”Tyrion shrugged. “Fetch the duck.

A son for a son, heh. But that’s a grandson…and he never was much use.” –Walder Frey

The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,’ she said, ‘and I do not think that she is yours. I had a...

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That’s my...

All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.

You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.

…his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Gentle Mother, font of mercy,save our sons from war, we pray,stay the swords and stay the arrows,let them know a better day,Gentle Mother, strength of women,help our daughters through this fray,soothe the wrath and tame...

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.

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

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Lord Varyls, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I’d feel sad about it.

A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.

Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

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?

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed...

There will be pain.” (Qyburn)”I’ll scream.” (Jaime Lannister)”A great deal of pain.” (Qyburn)”I’ll scream very loudly.” Jaime Lannister)

Children are a battle of a different sort. … A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.

…the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.””…a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he...

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?” – Daenerys Targaryen

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...

I know I want you,” he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around...

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Mostra che le loro parole possono ferirti, e non sarai più libero dalla derisione. Se proprio vogliono darti un nome, accettalo, fallo tuo, in modo che poi non possano mai più usarlo per farti del...

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

What a man can do and what a man will do are two different things.

The day is won […] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

Winter is coming.

La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.

I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently....

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.