Quotes About Melisandre

#1. That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.

George R R Martin

#2. [Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you."
[Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice."
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George R R Martin

#3. Where Melisandre thinks to find a sleeping dragon, no one is quite sure. It's nonsense. Mance's blood is no more royal than mine own.

George R R Martin

#4. Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.

George R R Martin

#5. Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. One day, Melisandre prayed, she would not sleep at all. One day she would be free of dreams.

George R R Martin

#6. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#7. Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

George R R Martin

#8. Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde

#9. What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister?

George R R Martin

#10. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

George R R Martin

#11. In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

Ivan Illich

#12. He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility.

She could sip from that cup.

It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#13. I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

Sandra Bernhard

#14. I can be a real brat sometimes!

Emma Bunton

#15. Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

George R R Martin

#16. Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.

Jane Lindskold

#17. An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

Peter Lynch