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?
George R.R. Martin
Related George R.R. Martin is not your bitch. NEIL GAIMAN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality... SEAN BEAN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series. RAE CARSON Summer seems so cold without you, winter is even colder. LEMONY SNICKET Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering. DEBASISH MRIDHA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Summer is huge. Winter is kind of like little, compared to summer. But, yes, it will get bigger and ... LI YAN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... You are a woman, my lady," the Greatjon rumbled in his deep voice. "Women do not understand these th... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Winter, it seems, is back with a vengeance. MATTHEW DOBSON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call h... JACQUELINE WOODSON Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder. LEMONY SNICKET What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. JOHN STEINBECK We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, a... JUNKO ABE Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma... MICHAEL GOVE We had a warm start to the winter but now it is starting to look a bit ugly. The focus will be on co... CRAIG PENNINGTON Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I'll send a boy round to [the crazy farmer] Martin's and ask him to come by with a couple bottles."<... PATRICK ROTHFUSS My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s... JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in
winter; the fleshy, in summer. I... JOHN BURROUGHS It takes but a handful of words to ambush my soul with hope. Yet, the vexing question in it all is w... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, true... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married. SHELLEY WINTERS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES A lot of people hung them on the walls and on their windows. In the winter it kept out the cold and ... JEAN TYSON A lot of the time, we're shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the n... GIGI HADID I'd much rather keep summer. I hate the cold, and I hate winter. JEFF CLARK 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Truth be told a lot of people are just going to be discovering the Jack's record when they hear this... ANDREW MCMAHON I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut nove... RACHEL JOYCE Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't... JOHN GREEN You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb... WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
So rolls the cha... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am ... ZAC BROWN Why did you leave him?" The sigh that was Nora’s first answer billowed out in front of ... TIFFANY REISZ A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel," the old man had said, "the same counsel I once ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so... BEN SCHWARTZ 'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has ... ALEX GRAVES It is radical in terms of the empirical context, but the moon always responded to me when I had an a... YAMIN RASHEED The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i... PETE GALLEGO Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful po... DOROTHY HAMILL There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is wh... KAMERON HURLEY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do... SHARON DRAPER It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in... CHARLES DICKENS When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and ... LESLIE W.P. GARLAND To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO Lucas had a great summer of training. John is an anachronism. He is the reason why I come to work. AL CANTELLO When the great white silence comes and fills the boughs of the trees with a thickening, glistening b... J. Z. KNIGHT I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winni... STUART APPLEBY The plan is for the dome to cover the fountain in the winter and come off in the summer. BOB SNYDER April and May might start to warm some, but it could still be plenty wet. It rains here, but that's ... ANDY BRYANT To see them here is a dream come true. Los Angeles has been my hometown for so long, so to have them... MARIA ALTMANN There once was a kindly farmer who found a viper freezing on the ground in the snow. Please help me,... RACHEL CAINE I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a ... MERLE HAGGARD Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still chan... VINCENT VAN GOGH I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned m... HUNTER S. THOMPSON See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I don't want to reveal too much, but Ghost Rider is the Spirit of Vengeance. When he goes after some... DANIEL WAY It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about... TAYLOR SWIFT I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin... JAMES DURBIN Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine DAVID MOULTON People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very ... DAVID ARNOLD Industry will be praying for a busy driving season this summer, followed by a long, cold winter. JULIAN LEE You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus ... ANGELA VEITCH When you go through adversity, either you are going to bail out or you come together. This team came... CARON BUTLER Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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?" <... 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