Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.

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

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.

Were all mad here

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

Bishop, this is a full tithe and a little bit more, because that's the way we have been blessed.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max

Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.