Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Sweet lady," said Florian, "all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.

Never do what they expect,

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Hoooodor," said Hodor, swaying. "Hooooooodor, hoooooodor, hoDOR, hoDOR, hoDOR." Sometimes he liked to do this, just saying his name different ways, over and over and over.

Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.

a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

I want her, he realized. I want Winterfell, yes, but I want her as well, child or woman or whatever she is. I want to comfort her. I want to hear her laugh. I want her to come to me willingly, bring me her joys and her sorrows and her lust.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor...Daenerys, sweet queen, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it gives me to bask once more in your presence.

Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

As she watched him, this tall young man with the new beard and the direwolf prowling at his heels, all she could see was the babe they had laid at her breast at Riverrun, so long ago.

The night is dark and full of terrors, and so are dreams.

Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.

Why did you make your people lambs, when the world is full of wolves.

Her big hand wrapped tight around Oathkeeper. "I will. And I will find the girl and keep her safe. For her lady mother's sake. And for yours.

The summers have been shorter since the last dragon died, and the winters longer and crueler.

I'm short not blind

A twisted spine condemned him to walk with a limp, but as he said famously, "I do not limp when I read, nor when I write.

A weirwood will live forever if left undisturbed.

There were four of them, Catelyn saw. An old man in the black of the Night's Watch, two servants … and Tyrion Lannister, standing there small and bold as life. "My men will sleep in your stable, and as for myself, well, I do not require a large room, as you can plainly see." He flashed a mocking grin. "So long as the fire's warm and the straw reasonably free of fleas, I am a happy man.

Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.

When the gods are silent, lords and kings will make themselves heard.