George R.r. Martin Quotes

The fire that burns against the cold.

~ George R.r. Martin

Ice can kill as dead as fire.

~ George R.r. Martin

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

~ George R.r. Martin

Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.

~ George R.r. Martin

Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

~ George R.r. Martin

Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

~ George R.r. Martin

Dying is not dead.

~ George R.r. Martin

Begging for help never gets you any.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ George R.r. Martin

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

~ George R.r. Martin

Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.

~ George R.r. Martin

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

~ George R.r. Martin

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

~ George R.r. Martin

Sellswords put gold before honor.

~ George R.r. Martin

Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.

~ George R.r. Martin

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ George R.r. Martin

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

~ George R.r. Martin

Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.

~ George R.r. Martin

The sword was not the kingdom, he says.

~ George R.r. Martin

These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.

~ George R.r. Martin

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.

~ George R.r. Martin

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone.

~ George R.r. Martin

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

~ George R.r. Martin

It’s you and me that matters to me and you.

~ George R.r. Martin

I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?

~ George R.r. Martin

He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.

~ George R.r. Martin

In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.

~ George R.r. Martin

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

~ George R.r. Martin

Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.

~ George R.r. Martin

Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.

~ George R.r. Martin

The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.

~ George R.r. Martin

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

~ George R.r. Martin

My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

~ George R.r. Martin

May the Father judge him justly.

~ George R.r. Martin

Jaime gave her [Brienne] a hard smile. See, wench? We know each other too well.

~ George R.r. Martin

Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn’t seem right to drown them.

~ George R.r. Martin

What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

~ George R.r. Martin

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

~ George R.r. Martin

Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs.Harma's dead. Jon said.But not the pigs. They look at me the way Slayer used to look at ham. Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What's a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup? I could do with mine myself.

~ George R.r. Martin