Those with the least always lose the most in war.

West couldn’t simply leave the man like this, he didn’t have it in him.”Goodman Heath,” he said as he approached, and the peasant looked up at him, surprised. He fumbled for his hat and made...

It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

One day you’re something, so promising and full o’ dares, so big the world’s too small a place to hold you. Then, ‘fore you know it, you’re old, and you realise all them things you...

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

I’m a fucking coward.””Maybe.” Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun’s corpse. “There’s a hero. Tell me who’s better off.

Things aren’t what they used to be’ is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and...

That’s optimists. You bastards never learn.

When you’re in hell, only a devil can point the way out.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and...

I’ve made peace with myself.Good for you. That’s the hardest war of all to win.Didn’t say I won. Just stopped fighting.

This is stupid.””Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and...

Sometimes it doesn’t matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last.

He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They...

The Inquisitor waited for silence. “Do you believe in anything?””Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ,siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara?

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don’t get bogged down in it.

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Have a smile for breakfast, you’ll be shitting joy by lunch.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

It’s hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It’s hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you’ve had him for...

He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He’d always thought retiring would be going back to his life after some nightmare pause. Some stretch of exile in the land...

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see...

Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit.

Már az elöljárók között is túl sokan vannak, akikben nem lehet megbízni. Manapság nem a király vagy az állam érdekeit tartják szem előtt, csakis a saját boldogulásukat. – Az elöljárók? Hogy nem lehet bennük megbízni?...

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.

And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon...

Remember, though, that you are the king’s observer, not the king’s champion.

I span the entire geek spectrum.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?’ asked Morveer. ‘There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop’.’Twenty-eight strides’, said Friendly.’What?”The drop’.A brief pause, ‘That is not helpful’.

Ezt nézd meg! – sziszegte, és kinyitotta a száját, hogy a halálra vált fogoly láthassa a fogait. Vagyis, ami megmaradt belőlük. – Látod? Látod? Ahol kitörték a felső fogakat, ott meghagyták az alsókat, ahol pedig...

Some men you stick to right off. But it’s those that take time to stick that stick longest.

You can always make enemies of your friends,’ said Sumael. ‘Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

So the fox killer his brother,the wolf.”-Mother Scaer

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.

‘The Blade Itself’ was my first book. Probably I should’ve tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

Where do we find allies?”Father Yarvi smiled. “Among our enemies, where else?

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man’s...

They appear somewhat unreliable,” he murmured.”Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there’s not a man of them I wouldn’t trust my mother to.””Are you...

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.