The jousting went all day and into the dusk, the hooves of the great warhorses pounding down the lists until the field was a ragged wasteland of torn earth. A dozen times Jeyne and Sansa cried out in unison as riders crashed together, lances exploding into splinters while the commons screamed for their favourites. Jeyne covered her eyes whenever a man fell, like a frightened little girl, but Sansa was made of sterner stuff.

​-A Game of Thrones

"Listen! Listen to the waves! Listen to the god! He is speaking to us, and he says, We shall have no king but from the kingsmoot!"

​-A Fest of Crows

A flash of green caught his eye, ahead and off to port, and a nest of writhing emerald serpents rose burning and hissing from the stern of Queen Alysanne. An instant later Davos heard the dread cry of "Wildfire!"

​-A Clash of Kings

"Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return."

"it's no freak," Jon said calmly. "That's a direwolf. They grow larger than the other kind."
Theon Greyjoy said, "There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the Wall in two hundred years."
"I see one now," Jon replied.

​-A Game of Thrones

Dark wings, dark words, Old Nan always said, and of late the messenger ravens had been proving the truth of the proverb.

​-A Game of Thrones

"Our walls are made of wood and painted purple. Our galley are our walls. We need no other."

-A Feast of Crows

He sat high upon the immense ancient seat of Aegon the Conqueror, an ironwork monstrosity of spikes and jagged edges and grotesquely twisted metal. It was, as Robert had warned him, a hellishly uncomfortable chair.

​-A Game of Thrones

The Hand's private audience chamber was not so large as the king's nor a patch on the vastness of the throne room, but Tyrion liked its Myrish rugs, wall hangings, and sense of intimacy.

​-A Clash of Kings

Peacocks were served in their plumage, roasted whole and stuffed with dates.

-A Storm of Swords