George R.R. Martin

Quotes

• “You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" ...”
• “Now, how do you suppose this queen will react when you turn up with your begging bowl in hand and say, 'Good morrow to y...”
• “No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's ...”
• “The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he coul...”
• “You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But...”
• “They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a ...”
• “Are you certain they never cut your member off?" Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madne...”
• “As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two ...”
• “The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television...”
• “It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb go...”
• “Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plas...”
• “Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the fainte...”
• “We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolor...”
• “And it’s great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the boo...”
• “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 pa...”
• “Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He’s been taken by the St...”
• “The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the ...”
• “Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won...”
• “...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and th...”
• “One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos h...”
• “No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told befo...”
• “The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shap...”
• “There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twit...”
• “A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them...”
• “His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply ...”
• “The dog barked and wagged his tail. He was a huge, shaggy creature, ten stone of dog at least, but friendly. 'Who does h...”
• “We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of co...”
• “It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing o...”
• “The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. Th...”
• “Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the bes...”
• “I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me...”
• “Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatu...”
• “Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it....”
• “I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at ...”
• “Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for...”
• “It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracte...”
• “Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine'...”
• “Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried o...”
• “Lem glowered. "Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foragin...”
• “Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only th...”
• “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...”
• “I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they ...”
• “She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little d...”
• “I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief a...”
• “Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid...”
• “You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glan...”
• “Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you c...”
• “It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again a...”
• “If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that...”
• “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 sa...”