When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you. Author: George R.R. Martin Copy Quote More from George R.R. Martin “Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?” “I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF” “...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hide…” “Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and …”