Quotes About Vulnerability

I can't command you to be brave, but I can command you to hide your fears.

The more people you love, the weaker you are.

Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

Once you have accepted your flaws, No one can use them against you.

If the lamb sees the knife, she panics. Her panic seeps into her meat, darkens it, fouls the flavor.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with.

Why did you make your people lambs, when the world is full of wolves.

Her father said there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear. "All men live with fear," he said.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

Sex is sharing, you see, and it's good to share with everyone. But the sharing has to be real and meaningful. That creates problems.

Can a man be brave when he is afraid?- Bran asked after a moment's thought. -"It's the only time he can be brave,"- his father said.

It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.

Bran had told himself a hundred times how much he hated hiding down here in the dark, how much he wanted to see the sun again, to ride his horse through wind and rain. But now that the moment was upon him, he was afraid. He'd felt safe in the darkness; when you could not even find your own hand in front of your face, it was easy to believe that no enemies could ever find you either.

El miedo hiere más que las espadas.

Above him loomed a grotesque fat man [...] His bedrobe was large enough to serve as a tourney pavilion, but its loosely knotted belt had come undone, exposing a huge white belly and a pair of heavy breasts that sagged like sacks of suet covered with coarse yellow hair.

If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you.

I've never been frightened of shepherds. It's the sheep who trouble me.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it.