Vagner Stefanello > Vagner's Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Words are wind.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“Instinct is everything.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“Serpent-Breath was in my hand and anger in my soul.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“I was doing everything wrong. I was confused. Confusion is inevitable in battle, but indecision is unforgivable, and I had hesitated to make any decision and then made all the wrong ones.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“And where are we going?' he asked. "to war,' I said grandly. 'We'll give the poets something to sing about. We'll wear their tongues out with singing! We're going to war, my friend,' I slapped Finan's shoulder, 'but right now I'm going to sleep. Keep the men busy, tell them they're going to be heroes!”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop," the king said, "and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that he has succeeded.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword Song

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“The sight of that loveliness was enough to drive all sense from a man's head.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“You will tell him that Uhtred of Bebbanburg is in a mood to kill.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“A battle in the shield wall. It's smelling your enemy's breath while he tries to disembowel you with an axe, it's blood and shit and screams and pain and terror. It's trampling in your friends' guts as enemies butcher them. It's men clenching their teeth so hard they shatter them. Have you ever been in a battle?”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“And we screamed. We screamed our war cry, our shout of slaughter, our joy of being men in battle who are driven by terror.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“He was watching my eyes. A man who uses a sword with lethal skill always matches his opponent's eyes.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

“There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones