I.B. George Quotes

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.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

Some doors are best left closed.

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

"Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei."

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

A dead enemy is a joy forever

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.