Ed Martin Quotes

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

Men see what they expect to see.

Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.

The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you’ll never know." - Euron Greyjoy

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

Can they love without a word for it?