Quotes from George R.R. Martin

She did not come to him, however. She has never come to me, he tough. She has always waited, letting me come to her. She gives, but I must ask.

Beneath it his skin was milky white, serene and unlined, ready to begin anew, ready for the world to write upon it.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I'm the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

First rule, stick them with the pointy end!

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Is it all lies, forever and ever, everyone and everything?" - Sansa

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.

Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.

Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

The bathhouse had been thick with the steam rising off the water and Jaime had come walking through that mist naked as his name day, looking half a corpse and half a god. He climbed into the tub with me , she remembered, blushing.

When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that's even darker.

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

Harsh justice is still justice.