Quotes About Challenge

What do we say to the Lord of Death?' 'Not today.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha Greyjoy

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

In life, the monsters win.

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.

This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings.

He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

Noble words, but words were easy. Deeds were hard. - Brienne

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

So the wolfling is leaving his den to play among the lions," he said in a voice of quiet satisfaction.

He had chosen a hard life... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him

a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spinds and back flips. "Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?" She nodded. "Tomorrow we're going to catch cats." "Cats." Ned sighed.

It is no easy thing to slay a dragon, but it can be done.