15 quotes found
“...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field”
“Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.”
“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
“Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.”
“So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.”
“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”
“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that wh...”
“I'm a fucking coward.""Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.”
“This is stupid.""Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness...”
“He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He'd always thought retiring would be going back to his life after some nightmare pause. Some stretch of exile in the land of the dead. ...”
“Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.”
“Whirrun ignored em. Then, when Ive got two cut, and he dropped a pale slab of cheese on one slice then slapped the other on top like he was catching a fly, I trap the cheese between then, and there...”
“Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.”
“The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would...”
“Whats the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? ...”
