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A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) QUOTES

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) QUOTES

1 " Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

2 " 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 (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

3 " Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

4 " He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

5 " Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

6 " Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

7 " One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

8 " And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”
“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

9 " 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 (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

10 " 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 Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

11 " She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

12 " There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

13 " Words are not swords. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

14 " But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

15 " These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

16 " The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

17 " Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

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

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

19 " Time 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 , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

20 " The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)