Quotes from George R.R. Martin

the longer he lived ,the more tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.

worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

In the songs, the knights never screamed nor begged for mercy.

even stone will crack and melt if a fire is hot enough.

Tyrion: Careful now, Shagga, you've cut him. Shagga: Dolf fathered warriors, not barbers.

Trust no one. And keep your dragon close.

I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

I think he is a giant among us, here at the end of the world.

My brothers have my measure when it comes to fighting and dancing and thinking and reading books, but none of them is half my equal at lying insensible in the mud.

Brothers, oh brothers, my days here are done, the Dornishman's taken my life, But what does it matter, for all men must die, and I've tasted the Dornishman's wife!

But prominent families, often forget a simple truth, I've found. Knowledge is power.

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it you own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.

The rocking of the deck beneath his feet made his stomach heave, and the wretched food tasted even worse when retched back up.

i have done things i am not proud of, things that brought shame onto my house and my father's name.. but to kill your own sire? how could any man do that? - give me a crossbow and pull down your breeches, and i'll show you. gladly. - you think this is a jape? - i think life is a jape. yours, mine, everyone's.

You will need to be brave and strong . . . and patient, patient above all.

The gods have no mercy. That's why they're gods.

I am a knight—" "So I've noted. Tell me—did Cersei have you knighted before or after she took you into her bed?" The flicker in Lancel's green eyes was all the admission Tyrion needed. So Varys told it true. Well, no one can ever claim that my sister does not love her family.

My mother told me that dead men don't sing

There's always a bear,

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.

If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes," the king said. "I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone .

When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.