What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

There are no men like me. There's only me

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

the value of a man increases only when he has a consistent relationship with God

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings.