Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.

You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?" "I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?

The thought made his belly heave again. Sam bent over the gunwale and retched, but not into the wind. He had gone to the right rail this time. He was getting good at retching.

She don't speak," said the big man in the yellow cloak. "You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers." He turned to the dead woman and said, "What do you say, m'lady? Was he part of it?" Lady Catelyn's eyes never left him. She nodded.

His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.

Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.

He is fair of face and foul of heart.

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

The Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep the blood line pure.

He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing." - Bran

I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.

What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth.

You are quick, for a dancing master, said Ser Meryn. You are slow, for a knight, Syrio replied.

If the fire was too hot, you could hardly keep the pudding from scorching by tossing a handful of raisins in the pot.

First I anger Edmure, and now Robb, but all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?

The Wall can stop an army, but not a man alone.

One thing all the stories agreed on: King Robert was dead. The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the city in a bronze tide. They only rang the bells like that for the death of a king, a tanner's boy told Arya.

some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.

Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?

In a world so full of treachery, that was worth a few kisses.

When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come,

Las cosas que amamos siempre acaban por destruirnos.

The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.

The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon