George R.r. Martin Quotes

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

~ George R.r. Martin

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

~ George R.r. Martin

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

~ George R.r. Martin

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore? Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

~ George R.r. Martin

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ George R.r. Martin

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. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

~ George R.r. Martin

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

~ George R.r. Martin

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

~ George R.r. Martin

If you need help bark like a dog. - Gendry. That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help. - Arya

~ George R.r. Martin

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

~ George R.r. Martin

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing. Arya Stark

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ George R.r. Martin

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

~ George R.r. Martin

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

~ George R.r. Martin

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

~ George R.r. Martin

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

~ George R.r. Martin

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

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

~ George R.r. Martin

Is it so far from madness to wisdom? - Daenerys Targaryen

~ George R.r. Martin

Laughter is poison to fear.

~ George R.r. Martin

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

~ George R.r. Martin

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

~ George R.r. Martin

Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?”“It is.” Jon took her hand.“Good,” she whispered. “I wanted t’ see one proper castle, before … before I …”“You’ll see hundred castles. The battle’s done. Maester Aemon will see to you. You’re kissed by fire, remember? Lucky. It will take more than an arrow to kill you. Aemon will draw it out and patch you up, and we’ll get milk of the poppy for the pain.”She just smiled at that. “D’you remember that cave? We should have stayed in that cave. I told you so.”“We’ll go back to the cave,” he said.” You’re not going to die, Ygritte. You’re not.”“Oh.” Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” she sighed, dying.

~ George R.r. Martin

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

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She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

~ George R.r. Martin

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

~ George R.r. Martin

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

~ George R.r. Martin

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

~ George R.r. Martin

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

~ George R.r. Martin

What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.

~ George R.r. Martin

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

~ George R.r. Martin

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

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A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

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The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.

~ George R.r. Martin

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are.... [they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?

~ George R.r. Martin

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

~ George R.r. Martin

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?

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We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.

~ George R.r. Martin