Quotes from George R.R. Martin

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we've never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes," the Mountain declared. "Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

Valar Morghulis- All men must die

all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.

That's no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.

And the crow once called the raven black.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon's teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

No Queen has clean hands.