Quotes from George R.R. Martin

CATELYN Ned and the girls were eight days gone when Maester Luwin came to her one night in Bran's sickroom, carrying a reading lamp and the books of account. "It is past time that we reviewed the

I'll pay her bloody ransom. Gold, sapphires, whatever you want. Pull her out of there." "You want her? Go get her." So he did.

His father took off the man's head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine.

It is a terrible thing we contemplate, a vile thing. Yet we who presume to rule must do vile things for the good of the realm, howevermuch it pains us.

And his father's voice replied to him. "That is the only time a man can be brave.

In this world, a man must learn to seize whatever gifts the gods chose to send him. That was a lesson I learned at some cost. I offer it to you as a sign of my good faith.

Csak a bolond alacsonyítja le magát, amikor tele a világ olyanokkal, akik szívesen megteszik ezt helyette.

The arms of Tarth were quartered rose and azure, and bore a yellow sun and crescent moon.

The new-made Lord Quenton had two strong sons and a plump grandson to assure the succession, but as his first wife had been carried off by spotted fever three years earlier, he further agreed to take one of Lord Tully's daughters as his bride.

should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten

My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.

Aye." Malice gleamed in Maggy's yellow eyes. "Queen you shall be … until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

glass knives were about as useful as nipples on a knight's breastplate,

And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty." "She was," said Meera, "but that's a sadder story." "Are you certain you never heard this tale before, Bran?" asked Jojen. "Your lord father never told it to you?

Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea can safely be dismissed as nonsense, as can many of Barth's queerer beliefs and suppositions.

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

Salt a slug shame a here, and they shrink right up.

Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?" She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter.

It was baffling. These creatures. They were fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart.

A small victory, he thought, but sweet. He had passed his first test. Tyrion Lannister shouldered through the door, feeling almost tall. Five members of the king's small council broke off their discussion suddenly. "You,"his sister Cersei said in a tone that was equal parts disbelief and distaste.

His axe took her in the back of the head.

In his experience, entities that spoke in such a high-toned manner tended to have an acute regard for themselves that was inversely matched by a lack of concern for the comfort of those who minioned for them—indeed, even for their continued existence.

Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.

He won't hurt me. This is not the day I die." The male walked toward them, unafraid, and reached out for his muzzle, a touch as light as a summer breeze. Yet at the brush of those fingers the wood dissolved and the very ground turned to smoke beneath his feet and swirled away laughing, and then he was spinning and falling, falling, falling