Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

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.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

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.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.

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

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..

All halls lead somewhere. Where there is a way in, there is a way out. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.

Missandei: Valar morghulis. Daenerys Targaryen: Yes. All men must die, but we are not men.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

Still ... in this world only winter is certain.