Quotes From "A Clash Of Kings" By George R.r. Martin

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows..they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other. George R.r. Martin

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys, " he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you. George R.r. Martin

The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. George R.r. Martin

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. George R.r. Martin

Look at me! " he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon, " or "Look at me, I'm a wizard, " or "Look at me, look at me, I'm the rain George R.r. Martin

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow. George R.r. Martin

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way. George R.r. Martin

Children are a battle of a different sort.... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce. George R.r. Martin

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means? It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king. George R.r. Martin

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity. George R.r. Martin

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. George R.r. Martin

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again. George R.r. Martin

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. George R.r. Martin

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust. George R.r. Martin

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. George R.r. Martin

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine. George R.r. Martin

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing–but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill. George R.r. Martin

…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.”“ Even the lies?”“ Especially the lies. Lord Petyr… George R.r. Martin

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. George R.r. Martin

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all. George R.r. Martin

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark) George R.r. Martin

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies. George R.r. Martin

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you. George R.r. Martin

His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh George R.r. Martin

Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits. George R.r. Martin

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. George R.r. Martin

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid. George R.r. Martin

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. George R.r. Martin

No man should live longer than his teeth. George R.r. Martin

There’s always a bear, George R.r. Martin

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. George R.r. Martin

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. George R.r. Martin

The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool. George R.r. Martin

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust. George R.r. Martin

Ice can kill as dead as fire. George R.r. Martin

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish George R.r. Martin

Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn’t seem right to drown them. George R.r. Martin

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it. George R.r. Martin

One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it. George R.r. Martin

A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily. George R.r. Martin

Mine is the blood of the dragon. George R.r. Martin

The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even you body. "You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight , the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing." Battle fever. I am half a man and drunk with slaughter, let them kill me if they can! . George R.r. Martin

Fighting is better than this waiting, ” Brienne said. “You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When you’re armored it’s hard for anyone to hurt you.”“ Knights die in battle, ” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them. George R.r. Martin