A Storm of Swords Quotes

“I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use. I've made tools and knives and once I made a helmet that wasn't so bad. One of the Mountain's men stole it from me when we was taken."
Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“There's a funny fool. I have a riddle for you, Shagwell. Why do you care if she screams? Oh, wait, I know." He shouted "SAPPHIRES," as loudly as he could.
Cursing, Rorge kicked at his stump again. Jaime howled. I never knew there was such agony in the world, was the last thing he remembered thinking. It was hard to say how long he was gone, but when the pain spit him out, Urswyck was there, and Vargo Hoat himself. "Thee'th not to be touched," the goat screamed, spraying spittle all over Zollo. "Thee hath to be a maid, you foolth! Thee'th worth a bag of thapphireth!" And from then on, every night Hoat put guards on them, to protect them from his own.
Two nights passed in silence before the wench finally found the courage to whisper, "Jaime? Why did you shout out?"
"Why did I shout out 'sapphires,' you mean? Use your wits, wench. Would this lot have cared if I shouted 'rape'?"
"You did not need to shout at all."
"You're hard enough to look at with a nose. Besides, I wanted to make the goat say, 'thapphireth.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them
spin their little webs, but if they get underfoot we step on them.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror. All this I dreamt, and more.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“En malas manos, una moneda es tan peligrosa como una espada.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Ygritte was much in his thoughts as well. He remembered the smell of her hair, the warmth of her body... and the look on her face as she slit the old man's throat. You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool.”
“You might, if you were not a eunuch.”
“Is that the way of it? A man may have wits, or a bit of meat between his legs, but not both?” Varys tittered. “Perhaps I should be grateful I was cut, then.”
The Spider was right.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“It is night in your Seven Kingdoms now,' the red woman went on, 'but soon the sun will rise again. The war continues, Davos Seaworth, and some will soon learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze. The old maester looked at Stannis and saw only a man. You see a king. You are both wrong. He is the Lord's chosen, the warrior of fire. I have seen him leading the fight against the dark, I have seen it in the flames. The flames do not lie, else you would not be here. It is written in prophecy as well. When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Ser Gerold Hightower had begun his history, and Ser Barristan Selmy had continued it, but the rest Jaime Lannister would need to write for himself. He could write whatever he chose, henceforth.
Whatever he chose ...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Kill me, and be cursed. You are no king of mine.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You promised him vengeance as well.'
'I promised him justice.'
'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion”
― George R.R. Martin , A Storm of Swords

“One day on a ranging we brought down a fine big elk. We were skinning it when the smell of blood drew a shadowcat out of its lair. I drove it off, but not before it shredded my cloak to ribbons. Do you see? Here, here, and here?” He chuckled. “It shredded my arm and back as well, and I bled worse than the elk. My brothers feared I might die before they got me back to Maester Mullin at the Shadow Tower, so they carried me to a wildling village where we knew an old wisewoman did some healing. She was dead, as it happened, but her daughter saw to me. Cleaned my wounds, sewed me up, and fed me porridge and potions until I was strong enough to ride again. And she sewed up the rents in my cloak as well, with some scarlet silk from Asshai that her grandmother had pulled from the wreck of a cog washed up on the Frozen Shore. It was the greatest treasure she had, and her gift to me.” He swept the cloak back over his shoulders. “But at the Shadow Tower, I was given a new wool cloak from stores, black and black, and trimmed with black, to go with my black breeches and black boots, my black doublet and black mail. The new cloak had no frays nor rips nor tears … and most of all, no red. The men of the Night’s Watch dressed in black, Ser Denys Mallister reminded me sternly, as if I had forgotten. My old cloak was fit for burning now, he said. “I left the next morning … for a place where a kiss was not a crime, and a man could wear any cloak he chose.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“We do not choose our destinies.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Men are men ... Dragons are dragons.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“So spare me your envy. It was the gods who neglected to give you a cock, not me.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords