As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
George R. R. MartinI never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.
George R. R. MartinIf I wanted to honor you, Iยดd let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink
George R. R. MartinAlways 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. MartinThe eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
George R. R. MartinTime is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.
George R. R. Martin