George R.R. Martin Quotes

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

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.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

Every flight begins with a fall.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

The man who never reads lives only one.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

Wine makes all things possible.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

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.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

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.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)