Quotes from George R.R. Martin

I love beauty, but sometimes a thing lovely to behold conceals vileness and evil within.

The faithful dog is kicked, and no matter how the spider weaves, he is never loved.

We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more.

Yes, all Lannisters are lions, and when a Tyrell breaks wind it smells just like a rose.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Honey poured over thunder.

It was the end of the world. And we are going beyond it.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to them.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. 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.

Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer

If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.

Nunca ha existido un esclavo que no escogiera ser esclavo. Puede que la elección fuera entre los grilletes y la muerte, pero la elección estaba siempre allí.

Night's Watch takes no part, so no man's our enemy." "And no man's our friend, she thought.

The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart.

Dragons die." She stood on her toes to kiss him lightly on an unshaven cheek. "But so do dragonslayers.

My brother has his sword, and I have my mind... ?Tyrion Lannister

Wolves and women wed for life.

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends.

If only you could take that final step, you'd see farther than ll the rest. You'd be alone with nothing but blue sky above you.