George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
33 quotes
"In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition."
"Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go."
"This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration."
"I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading."
"The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons."
"My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."
"...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime,"
"Dreams turn to dust in light of day."
"Still, beauty can mask deadly danger."
"Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading."
"History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again."
"Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage."
"No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul."
"There is no shame in loving."
"Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back."
"Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall."
"Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both."
"I am the sword in the darkness."
"A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart."
"A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright."
"Silence is a prince's friend."
"An ugly smile. An ugly soul."
"In this world the weak are the victims of the strong."
"The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle."
"The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate."