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George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

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George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons Quotes

“If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.”

“And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.”

“Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.”

“Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.”

“It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”

“Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”

“Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.”

“Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.”

“You know nothing, Jon Snow”

“I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.”

“She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.”

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”

“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”

“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”

“Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.”

“Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.”

“The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.”

“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.”

“A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.”

“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”

“Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.”

“Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.”

“A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.”

“Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.”

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

“How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied.”

“You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.”

“Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.”

“All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes”

“We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.”

“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.”

“He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.”

“A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.”

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”

“For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.”

“Laughter is poison to fear.”

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”

“And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.”

“Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.”

“Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.”

“Speak the name, and death will come. On the morrow, at the turn of the moon, a year from this day, it will come. A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there.”

“No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.”