Asma Khalid > Asma's Quotes

“The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you''

''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“They hate you because you act like you're better than they are”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,’ the dwarf had told him smiling. 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.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. It certainly broke mine. Lowborn, half-starved, unwashed... Yet lovely. They'd torn the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chase the men into the woods. By the time he came trotting back, I'd gotten a name out of her, and a story. She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to... Well, nowhere, really.
The girl was too frightened to send her off by herself, though, so I offered to take her to the closest inn and feed her while my brother rode back to the Rock for help.
She was hungrier than I would have believed. We finished two whole chickens and part of a third, and drank a flagon of wine, talking. I was only thirteen, and the wine went to my head, I fear. The next thing I knew, I was sharing her bed. If she was shy, I was shyer. I'll never know where I found the courage. When I broke her maidenhead, she wept, but afterward she kissed me and sang her little song, and by morning I was in love.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to
Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson.

Cat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Why do women prefer adventurers who make them suffer, rather than men who are kind and attentive? Are they seduced by the man or by the vast horizons he allows them to glimpse? Is it the man they love or the dream he represents?”
― Kenizé Mourad, In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal

“In my despair I remember
that there is life after death;
there is life after death
and I have no problem.
But I ask:
Oh my God,
is there life before death?”
― Mourid Barghouti

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Going against the customs of the Court and high society that consider it normal to make the lower classes wait indefinitely, Hazrat Mahal has never been able to accept this disregard for others, this manner of monopolising their time....this tendency to make them waste their lives, just out of indifference. She knows very well that for those who have nothing, offering their time is proof of their devotion.”
― Kenizé Mourad, In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
― James Baldwin

“Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
― James Baldwin

“No man is a devil in his own mind.”
― James Baldwin

“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.”
― James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues