"My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

"Men with comfortable seats were inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were mor inclined to shout."

"You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fire. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire everytime."

"One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it goes."

"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish."

"Every battle is a gamble. The man who does nothing also takes a risk."


George R. R. Martin