George R.R. Martin Quotes

Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.

Dreams can lie, your Grace.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light

Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother

A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.

Wolves and women wed for life.

All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.

Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

Beauty can be treacherous.

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

One King means peace.

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

A man who hates music can't be trusted.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

Shall I prick my prick as well?

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon, " or "Look at me, I'm a wizard, " or "Look at me, look at me, I'm the rain

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

There is power in a King's blood.

I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.(Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark)

Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,

Harsh justice is still justice.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

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

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.

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

Strength to your arm, then.

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.

A great battle is a terrible thing, " the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.

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

Words are wind.

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

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

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

Words are not swords.

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

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.

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

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.

The light that brings the dawn.

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