Jared Nelson

“Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn.

The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold

“Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
― J.R.R Tolkien