“He is mine, too.”
“Where the king goes, the realm follows -Catlyn Stark-”
“I prefer the scars of war.”
“His eyes were green and cold and brilliant with murder.”
“Impossible is a fantasy never a fact.”
“It was a feeling unmatched, to be sought by another.”
“Rule wisely, oh king, for the land is your flesh, its people your blood.”
“Mildmay’s anger was like a third person sitting between us-which was all the more unfortunate as there was barely room for two.”
“Inverno, Primavera, Estate, Autunno; La morte è la quinta e la padrona di tutte”
“Power was building up around him, living, writhing, hissing power.”
“All the time he had been lying in wait, pretending to be something he wasn’t.”
“The shapes in the shadows uttered tittering chimes of thin bones clattering together in the breeze.”
“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.”
“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
“Say something spiteful.” “Why?” she asked faintly. “Because I’m fairly certain I m hallucinating and in my dreams you re much nicer.” “You re an idiot, Nikolai.”
“Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later— probably sooner— I’d look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I’d be disappointed in you if I didn’t see you.” “Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.”
“Her time is better spent with me. The thorn wood is a path you walk alone, boy king.” “But it’s a very arduous path,” Nikolai said. “Who will carry my snacks?”