Quotes from George R.R. Martin

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice...

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.

I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha Greyjoy

I am become a sour woman, Catelyn thought. 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.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. If that's true, Lord Eddard, tell me… why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.