Quotes From "A Storm Of Swords" By George R.r. Martin

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 them. He had been in her half a hundred times by now, but always beneath furs, with others all around them. He had never seeen how beautiful she was. Her legs were skinny and well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. Does that make it even luckier? He pulled her close. "I love the smell of you, " he said. "I love your red hair. I love your mouth, and the way you kiss me. I love your smile. I love your teats." He kissed them, one and then the other. "I love your skinny legs, and what's between them." He knelt to kiss her there, lightly on her mound at first, but Ygritte moved her legs apart a little, and he saw the pink inside and kissed that as well, and tasted her. She gave a little gasp. "If you love me all so much, why are you still dressed?" she whispered. "You know nothing, Jon Snow. Noth---oh. Oh. OHHH."Afterward, she was almost shy, or as shy as Ygritte ever got. "The thing you did, " she said, when they lay together on their piled clothes. "With your..mouth." She hesistated. "Is that..is it what lordss do to their ladies, down in the south?"" I don't think so." No one had ever told Jon just what lords did with their ladies. "I only..wanted to kiss you there, that's all. You seemed to like it."" Aye. I..I liked it some. No one taught you such?"" There's been no one, " he confessed. "Only you. George R.r. Martin

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. George R.r. Martin

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench. George R.r. Martin

Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?”“ It is.” Jon took her hand.“ Good, ” she whispered. “I wanted t’ see one proper castle, before … before I …”“You’ll see hundred castles. The battle’s done. Maester Aemon will see to you. You’re kissed by fire, remember? Lucky. It will take more than an arrow to kill you. Aemon will draw it out and patch you up, and we’ll get milk of the poppy for the pain.” She just smiled at that. “D’you remember that cave? We should have stayed in that cave. I told you so.”“ We’ll go back to the cave, ” he said.” You’re not going to die, Ygritte. You’re not.”“ Oh.” Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. “You know nothing, Jon Snow, ” she sighed, dying. George R.r. Martin

The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous. George R.r. Martin

One King means peace. George R.r. Martin

A man who hates music can't be trusted. George R.r. Martin

It all goes back and back, " Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads. George R.r. Martin

Up and down, " Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran.""Yesterday you said you loved them."" Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say." Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them."" Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose." Because they're different, " he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and fire."" If ice can burn, " said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one."" One, " his sister agreed, "but over wrinkled. George R.r. Martin

Harsh justice is still justice. George R.r. Martin

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger George R.r. Martin

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. George R.r. Martin

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead. George R.r. Martin

The light that brings the dawn. George R.r. Martin

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. George R.r. Martin

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. George R.r. Martin

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?. George R.r. Martin

Are you certain they never cut your member off?" Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madness. "Well, you are a free man now, but if you will have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear. If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller, until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it. George R.r. Martin

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey George R.r. Martin

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. George R.r. Martin

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers. George R.r. Martin

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. George R.r. Martin

Lem glowered. "Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foraging. the wolves as well, so why not us? no one robbed you, dog. You just been good and foraged. George R.r. Martin

No, ” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. George R.r. Martin

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all. George R.r. Martin

His wits have gone dark as his eyes George R.r. Martin

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her. George R.r. Martin

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn George R.r. Martin

Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies. George R.r. Martin

Flies are the dead man's revenge. George R.r. Martin

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers. George R.r. Martin

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe. George R.r. Martin

A sweet fruit for a sweet fight. George R.r. Martin

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone. George R.r. Martin

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play, George R.r. Martin

The fire that burns against the cold. George R.r. Martin

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux. George R.r. Martin

Begging for help never gets you any. George R.r. Martin

Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe. George R.r. Martin

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. George R.r. Martin

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? George R.r. Martin

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight. George R.r. Martin

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish. George R.r. Martin