#throne

I never win anything," Dolorous Edd complained. "The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice depp proof of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?" "Was it a long fall?" Green wanted to know. "Did landing in the pool of water save his life?" "No," said Dolorous Edd. "He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#of #storm #swords #thrones #life

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#heroes #monsters #sansa #sansa-stark #life

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#build #himself #man #may #sit

Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#down #fastest #throne #travels #up

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#attempts #butchers #crime #innocence #might

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#motto #death

sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. Ned. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#ned #men

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#catelyn-stark #george-r-r-martin #robb-stark #winter-is-coming #winterfell

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fantasy-fiction #game-of-thrones #medieval #fantasy-fiction

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#big #deception #flowing #god #his