Ed Martin Quotes

Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

As we sin, so do we suffer

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

Trust is earned. Like gold.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

More details, more devils.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

If? The word is when.

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

The best calumnies are spiced with truth.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.