George R.R. Martin Quotes

A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.

When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

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

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....

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

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord, " Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

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

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.

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

Flies are the dead man's revenge.

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

Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness

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.

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

There’s always a bear,

A sweet fruit for a sweet fight.

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

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

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

Dragons are fire made flesh.

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

What fire joins none man can put aside,

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

The fire that burns against the cold.

Ice can kill as dead as fire.

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

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

Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

Dying is not dead.

Begging for help never gets you any.

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

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

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

Sellswords put gold before honor.

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

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

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

The sword was not the kingdom, he says.

I never understood what Jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection.

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

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