Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

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.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.