Melisandre Quotes

“The ruby at Melisandre's throat gleamed red. "It is not those foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold."
"It is always cold on the Wall."
"You think so?"
"I know so, my lady."
"Then you know nothing, Jon Snow," she whispered.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.”
― George R.R. Martin

“What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister?”
― George R.R. Martin

“It is night in your Seven Kingdoms now,' the red woman went on, 'but soon the sun will rise again. The war continues, Davos Seaworth, and some will soon learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze. The old maester looked at Stannis and saw only a man. You see a king. You are both wrong. He is the Lord's chosen, the warrior of fire. I have seen him leading the fight against the dark, I have seen it in the flames. The flames do not lie, else you would not be here. It is written in prophecy as well. When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“They need never know how difficult it had been, or how much it had cost her. That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.”
― Goerge R R Martin

“She said sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

A wise woman...A sword without a hilt is still a sword, though, and a sword is a fine thing to have when foes are all about.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A noite é escura e cheia de terrores, o dia luminoso, belo e cheio de esperança. Uma é negra, o outro é branco. Há gelo e fogo. Ódio e amor. Amargura e doçura. Macho e fêmea. Dor e prazer. Inverno e Verão. Mal e bem. Em toda a parte há opostos. Em todos a parte há a guerra.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Visions danced before her, gold and scarlet, flickering, forming and melting and dissolving into one another, shapes strange and terrifying and seductive.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Snowflakes swirled from a dark sky and ashes rose to meet them, the grey and the white whirling around each other as flaming arrows arched above a wooden wall and dead things shambled silent through the cold, beneath a great grey cliff where fires burned inside a hundred caves. Then the wind rose and the white mist came sweeping in, impossibly cold, and one by one the fires went out. Afterward only the skulls remained.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons