George R.R. Martin Quotes

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.. George R.R. Martin

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.. George R.R. Martin

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.. George R.R. Martin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up..

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if

Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.. George R.R. Martin

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

Words are wind.

Words are not swords.. George R.R. Martin

Words are not swords.

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

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

The world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honour of kings..

The world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honour of kings.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love..

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

If you need help bark like a dog. - Gendry. That's stupid. If I need help

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.

"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

Her name is Brienne, Jaime said. Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I

Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"

Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes."

"Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.. George R.R. Martin

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.. George R.R. Martin

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And

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. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.. George R.R. Martin

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously..

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."

"Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?"

"How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

Every flight begins with a fall

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.

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?

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life.

If walls could keep us small peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Let them mock, Bran thought. No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.

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

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.

Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

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

The maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

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

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

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

What if the wolves come?" – Lommy Greenhands

"Yield." – Arya Stark

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.

Baimė kerta giliau nei kalavijas.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Mes visi bijome. Jei nebijotume, būtume kvailiai.

Drunks they may be, but a drunken man knows not fear. Fools, aye, but a fool can kill a king. Rats, that too, but a thousand rats can bring down a bear.

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

love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

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. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.

There is no shame in loving.

Sex is sharing, you see, and it's good to share with everyone. But the sharing has to be real and meaningful. That creates problems.

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

Hodor!

You win or you die.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

Mostra che le loro parole possono ferirti, e non sarai più libero dalla derisione. Se proprio vogliono darti un nome, accettalo, fallo tuo, in modo che poi non possano mai più usarlo per farti del male.

È possibile che un uomo che ha paura possa anche essere coraggioso?” “Possibile? Bran, è quella l’unica situazione in cui si fa strada il coraggio”.

Not a queen," said Dany. "A khaleesi.

Das Herz lügt, und der Kopf spielt uns Tricks vor, die Augen aber sehen die Wahrheit.

Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he’s a dragon in human form, you know. That’s why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he’d think himself an apple and we’d all be a deal safer, but there you are.

Where the king goes, the realm follows
-Catlyn Stark-

Pourquoi ? demanda-t-il à l'armurier. Que suis-je pour eux ?
- Un chevalier qui s'est souvenu de ses vœux.

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 heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die.

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.

The heart is all that matters.

Harsh justice is still justice.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

One war ends, another begins.

The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.

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

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.

La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

There will be pain." (Qyburn)
"I'll scream." (Jaime Lannister)
"A great deal of pain." (Qyburn)
"I'll scream very loudly." Jaime Lannister)

Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
save our sons from war, we pray,
stay the swords and stay the arrows,
let them know a better day,
Gentle Mother, strength of women,
help our daughters through this fray,
soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
teach us all a kinder way.<I>

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...

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

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 had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

He was a bee in a stone honeycomb, and someone had cut off his wings.

Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy boy would fill his hand with a harp when he might have had a sword.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."

"How odd. I think quite the same of you.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?

Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.

Be to, neretai nutinka, kad labai mažas žmogus meta labai didelį šešėlį.

Valdžia yra ten, kur žmonės mano ją esant. Nei daugiau, nei mažiau.

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

Some men think because they're afraid to do.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

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 pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.”
“You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said.
“I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.”
“Then give your words to Bran too.

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