Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.

You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath

Jon wanted nothing more. No , he had to tell himself, those days are gone . The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?

All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.

Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.

When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

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

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

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.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

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

Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.'' ''Lady Catelyn, you are wrong.'' Brienne regarded her with eyes as blue as her armor. ''Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it's always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.

A ruler needs a good head and a true heart," she famously told the king. "A cock is not essential.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

The night is dark and full of terrors.

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

Un lector vive mil vidas antes de morir. Aquel que nunca lee vive solo una.