Ed Martin Quotes

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

I can be humbler than anyone.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

I know who's going to be on the throne [in the Gameof Thrones], at the end, so I better not say. But, there will be a few people sitting on it, before the end.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.