George R.R. Martin Quotes

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

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?

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

In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.

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

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

Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.

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

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

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

May the Father judge him justly.

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

What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.

I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.

It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.

What man wants does not matter.

A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

Winter is coming.

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?

It's not, " Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

In this world the weak are the victims of the strong.

A man should smell of sweat, not flowers.

All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.

Blood calls to blood.

Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people.

Mine is the blood of the dragon.

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

Never speak of defeat before battle.

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees, " Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

It is hard to die unmourned.

All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself.

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.

My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.

Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- Cersei

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.