George R.R. Martin, A Game Of Thrones Quotes
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.
I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.
It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?
She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.
...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?
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?
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking
We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave, ' his father told him.
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, ” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.
The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord, " Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.
You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...
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....
... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.