George R.R. Martin Quotes
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.
The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.
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 he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen
I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?
Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.
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?
When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.
I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.
Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.
His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.
When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.
Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.
Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.
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.
It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?
Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC