Quotes from George R.R. Martin

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle-earth.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Nothing burns like the cold.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?' 'Not today.

I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died .

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods

Every flight begins with a fall.

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.