What if the wolves come?" – Lommy Greenhands
"Yield." – Arya Stark
George R.R. Martin
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NEIL GAIMAN I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ...
ALEX GRAVES If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.
"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout h...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One of the very striking life lessons from Game of Thrones.
When Arya was blind; hopeless...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE If he fancied her anymore,' Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, 'I'd be trying to kiss Arya mysel...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI It's just a stupid sword," she said, aloud this time...
... but it wasn't.
Needle was Robb...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
MARGARET ATWOOD There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
TED HUGHES Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded.
Arya glared at her. 'I have t...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?”
“Shazi?” Jalal’s grin widened. “Hone...
RENEE AHDIEH Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf.
~Kane Tyler~
LORA LEIGH Don is our George Martin,
DARIUS RUCKER Fred and George exchanged looks.
"You don't mind if we don't kiss you, do you, Ron?" said Fred ...
J.K. ROWLING Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With ...
ALISON CROGGON Throw me to the wolves &
I'll return leading the pack
-UNKNOWN What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Marti...
VOLTAIRE You know all of the young gentlemen better than I do,” Lady Manston continued. “Are there any we...
JULIA QUINN [In] The Wolves in the Walls, ... If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over.
NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabre...
BRIAN SELZNICK For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
OTEP SHAMAYA Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reac...
JOHN STEINBECK O Indra, destroy all
those lustful people
behaving like birds....
angry ones
be...
VEDA I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa)
No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolv...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope you never dreamed of ...
NICHOLE NORDEMAN Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper
TAMORA PIERCE You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL Is Jase already gonna marry you?”
I start coughing again. “Uh, No. No, George. I’m...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark."
"Nonsense. I'm fucking brilli...
J. KENNER What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?"
-Royce Westmorelan...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield
MATTHEW QUICK Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't co...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-e...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Pretender
Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
FOO FIGHTERS Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry...
EDWARD ALBEE Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, wo...
J.K. ROWLING Okay, I thought wolves had packs. Do you have a pack?”
“Not in the traditional sense.” CARRIE JONES Dreams can exist but not come true
And if you don't believe me just ask yourself
How can t...
KAY WHITLEY Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magi...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN DEMETRIUS
Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What if all your hard work never pays off?
What if I am the outsider to my friends and family?...
QUETZAL Have a shower, Si," George urged. "Start the day refreshed. Maybe style your hair a little. It would...
CASSANDRA CLARE If you are a monster, stand up.
If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,
If you’ve bu...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?"
"He's got b...
ANNE BISHOP Doode," George said.
He'd practiced all morning but still didn't get it quite right. "Nope, mor...
ILONA ANDREWS "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
EDWARD R. MURROW Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What if dragons breathed bubbles
and purred when they cuddled
and giggled at chivalrous ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH No mark survives this place: you too will yield
to unmemory.
MATHEW HENDERSON I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin,
BILLY JOEL I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was l...
CHARLES G. FINNEY I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was l...
CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY You told me, I remember, glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt;
The deeds th...
WILLIAM COWPER Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
A...
CHRISTOPHER LOGUE I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
SALLY GARDNER In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends.
MARK LONG Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.
George!...
J.K. ROWLING Strong creatures don't form herds.
Have they never heard of a lone wolf?
Cats are cute, an...
WATARU WATARI What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
MELODY CARLSON You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something, set it free."
"What if he doesn't co...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Few Come This Way
Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM?
"Yes! The sun would have risen just the same,...
TERRY PRATCHETT I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
STEVE BUSCEMI Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered...
A.E. HOUSMAN It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL You're a bitter man," said Candide.
That's because I've lived," said Martin.
VOLTAIRE There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"...
ERIN HANSON Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."
--From My Brother Martin,...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people<...
PETER GABRIEL Give me one more night to taste the dark
When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark
Let those ...
MUNIA KHAN Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of thi...
ROBERT FROST Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of
their way to march ahead ...
J.K. ROWLING Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.
Antony: If you choose to regard me as such...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Lokeij whistled. “Make the king’s warriors vanish if
they come. . . what a deceitful turtle...
TAMORA PIERCE So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and ...
STEPHEN COSGROVE Unpublished.
What if I, revealed these feelings
private pieces, ca...
BEV FLYNN You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are ...
STEVE MARTIN To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if y...
RUPERT HART-DAVIS COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT
I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What wa...
SUZY KASSEM The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
When I'm insp...
DOLLY PARTON The question is, will Paul Martin stand up to George Bush and say no?
JANICE HARVEY
More George R.R. Martin
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real th...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everyt...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Bear and the Maiden Fair
A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When they finally broke apart, Ygritte was flushed. "You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a lit...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as th...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fear cuts deeper than swords.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”
“If you want to conquer the world, you...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid e...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Those are brave men... lets go kill them
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You were made to be kissed, often and well.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?"
"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And who are you, the proud Lord said
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different co...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.
"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout h...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I wan...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who fears losing has already lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN El que corre por la vida, corre hacia la muerte.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A Lannister always pays his debts.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!�...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not te...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and moun...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"
- Daenerys Targaryen
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn o...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was all too much. For a moment Eddard Stark wanted nothing so much as to return to Winterfell, to...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What do we say to the Lord of Death?'
'Not today.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the wi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Valar Morghulis.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. A...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arm...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Laughter is poison to fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing burns like the cold.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I look back I am lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Winter is coming.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things I do for love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."
"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "D...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every flight begins with a fall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulde...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No Queen has clean hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.
“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN