Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Even if the boy does live, he will be a cripple. Worse than a cripple. A grotesque. Give me a good clean death.' Tyrion replied with a shrug that accentuated the twist of his shoulders. 'Speaking for the grotesques,' he said, 'I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

A king had best know the names of his enemies, don't you think?

How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?

Once a turncloak, ever a turncloak," Lord Cregan said. "You rose up in rebellion against your lawful queen and helped drive her from this city to her death, raised up your own squire in her place, then abandoned him to save your worthless hide. The realm will be a better place without you." When Ser Perkin protested that he had been pardoned for those crimes, Lord Stark replied, "Not by me.

How long has it been since you've eaten? My faith is all the nourishment I need. Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I'm flying. We're both laughing, laughing so much that I could hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me.

The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.

My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.

If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister

If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

If it's softer than the ground and has a roof over it, I call it a bed. Dolorous Edd sniffed the air. I smell dung.

We came here to be free of Old Valyria, and your Targaryens are Valyrian to the bone.

Sail far. Sail fast.

times may change, but men do not.

Do you think I do not know that? Oberyn is with me every time I close my eyes." Doran Martell

May," said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.

A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.

They had ridden past the end of the world; somehow that changed everything.

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.