Quotes from George R.R. Martin

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

I take no joy in mead nor meat, 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.

Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?" Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes." "Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

You were made to be kissed, often and well.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

There are no men like me. There's only me

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

A Lannister always pays his debts.

They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.