“Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.”
More from George R. R. Martin
“Dreams didn’t make us kings. Dragons did.”
“I do not wish to rule a kingdom of ash and bone.”
“Reluctance to murder is not a weakness!”
“Fire is such strange power.”