George R.r. Martin Quotes

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

~ George R.r. Martin

His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh

~ George R.r. Martin

Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.

~ George R.r. Martin

My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

~ George R.r. Martin

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....

~ George R.r. Martin

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

~ George R.r. Martin

That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.

~ George R.r. Martin

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

~ George R.r. Martin

His long wait is almost done. I am sending Balon Swann to Sunspear, to deliver him the head of Gregor Clegane.” Ser Balon would have another task as well, but that part was best left unsaid.“Ah.” Ser Harys Swyft fumbled at his funny little beard with thumb and forefinger. “He is dead then? Ser Gregor?”“I would think so, my lord,” Aurane Waters said dryly. “I am told that removing the head from the body is often mortal.

~ George R.r. Martin

Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.

~ George R.r. Martin

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

~ George R.r. Martin

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

~ George R.r. Martin

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.

~ George R.r. Martin

The things I do for love.

~ George R.r. Martin

Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

~ George R.r. Martin

I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark

~ George R.r. Martin

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

~ George R.r. Martin

Flies are the dead man's revenge.

~ George R.r. Martin

It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

~ George R.r. Martin

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

~ George R.r. Martin

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

~ George R.r. Martin

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

~ George R.r. Martin

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

~ George R.r. Martin

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

~ George R.r. Martin

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.

~ George R.r. Martin

They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit

~ George R.r. Martin

No man should live longer than his teeth.

~ George R.r. Martin

There’s always a bear

~ George R.r. Martin

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

~ George R.r. Martin

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

~ George R.r. Martin

A sweet fruit for a sweet fight.

~ George R.r. Martin

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

~ George R.r. Martin

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.

~ George R.r. Martin

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

~ George R.r. Martin

The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.

~ George R.r. Martin

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

~ George R.r. Martin

Dragons are fire made flesh.

~ George R.r. Martin

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

~ George R.r. Martin

What fire joins none man can put aside

~ George R.r. Martin

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play

~ George R.r. Martin