George R.r. Martin Quotes

Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

~ George R.r. Martin

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.

~ George R.r. Martin

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

~ George R.r. Martin

Strength to your arm, then.

~ George R.r. Martin

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

~ George R.r. Martin

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

~ George R.r. Martin

Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in it this time. There was only her and the dragon. Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. Her blood, Dany sensed. Its eyes were pools of molten magma and when it opened its mouth, the flame came roaring out in a hot jet. She could hear it singing to her. She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain. She felt strong and new and fierce. And the next day, strangely, she did not seem to hurt quite as much.

~ George R.r. Martin

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

~ George R.r. Martin

Maris sighed, and put a gentle hand on his arm. We'll do what we must, Coll. We have no choice. He looked up at her now, looking to her again as the child to the mother; although he knew now that she was as helpless as he, still he hoped. Why don't we have a choice? I don't understand.Maris sighed. It's law, Coll. We don't go against tradition here, you know that. We all have duties put upon us. If we had a choice I would keep the wings, I would be a flyer. And you could be a singer. We'd both be proud, and know we were good at what we did. Life will be hard as a land-bound. I want the wings so much. I've had them, and it doesn't seem right that they should be taken from me, butmaybe—maybe the tightness in it is something I just don't see. People wiser than we decided that thingsshould be the way they are, and maybe, maybe I'm just being a child about it, wanting everything my own way.

~ George R.r. Martin

Words are wind.

~ George R.r. Martin

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

~ George R.r. Martin

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

~ George R.r. Martin

Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.

~ George R.r. Martin

Words are not swords.

~ George R.r. Martin

But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

~ George R.r. Martin

I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.”“What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.”“You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said.“I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.”“Then give your words to Bran too.

~ George R.r. Martin

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.

~ George R.r. Martin

He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in the end he’ll always be alone in smiling pain.

~ George R.r. Martin

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

~ George R.r. Martin

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?

~ George R.r. Martin

These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.

~ George R.r. Martin

The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay.

~ George R.r. Martin

The light that brings the dawn.

~ George R.r. Martin

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

~ George R.r. Martin

The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin

~ George R.r. Martin

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, 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

Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are. He favored Jon with a rueful grin. Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs. And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

~ George R.r. Martin

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them and they go to rust.

~ George R.r. Martin

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

~ George R.r. Martin

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

~ George R.r. Martin

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

~ George R.r. Martin

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.

~ George R.r. Martin

The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

~ George R.r. Martin

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

~ George R.r. Martin

Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.

~ George R.r. Martin

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

~ George R.r. Martin

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

~ George R.r. Martin

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

~ George R.r. Martin

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

~ George R.r. Martin

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

~ George R.r. Martin