A Dance with Dragons Quotes

“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal."
"Reznak? Why should I fear him?" Dany rose from the pool. Water trickled down her legs, and gooseflesh covered her arms in the cool night air. "If you have some warning for me, speak plainly. What do you want of me, Quaithe?"
Moonlight shown in the woman's eyes. "To show you the way."
"I remember the way. I go north to go south, east to go west, back to go forward. And to touch the light I have to pass beneath the shadow." She squeezed the water from her silvery hair. "I am half-sick of riddling. In Qarth I was a beggar, but here I am a queen. I command you-"
"Daenerys. Remember the Undying. Remember who you are."
"The blood of the dragon." But my dragons are roaring in the darkness. "I remember the Undying. Child of three, they called me. Three mounts they promised me, three fires, and three treasons. One for blood and one for gold and one for . . ."
"Your Grace?" Missandei stood in the door of the queen's bedchamber, a lantern in her hand. "Who are you talking to?"
Dany glanced back toward the persimmon tree. There was no woman there. No hooded robe, no lacquer mask, no Quaithe.
A shadow. A Memory. No one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Un lector vive mil vidas antes de morir. Aquel que nunca lee vive solo una.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Jon wanted nothing more. No, he had to tell himself, those days are gone. The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“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.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I heard a Lannister always pays his debts."
"Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.
Winter is almost upon us, boy. And winter is death. I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned's little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks. No one sings songs of men who die like that. As for me, I am old. This will be my last winter. Let me bathe in Bolton blood before I die. I want to feel it spatter across my face when my axe bites deep into a Bolton skull. I want to lick it off my lips and die with the taste of it on my tongue.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“He says that it is good luck to rub the head of a dwarf,” Haldon said after an exchange with the guard in his own tongue.
Tyrion forced himself to smile at the man. “Tell him that it is even better luck to suck on a dwarf’s cock.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Whore!" someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“These Kingsguard knights are as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A crown should not sit easy on the head.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons