Quotes from George R.R. Martin

It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.

A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship.

Music to my ears." Though not a tune I'm fond of.

In a swordfight, a man's surest defense is the swift stroke that slays his foe, not cringing behind a shield.

I've never been frightened of shepherds. It's the sheep who trouble me.

The Lannisters may have their pride," she told Mya, "but the Tullys are born with better sense.

Men can always fight, Your Grace. Ask rather if we can win. Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

On wings as black as pitch Balerion plunged through the night, and when the great towers of Harrenhal appeared beneath him, the dragon roared his fury and bathed them in black fire, shot through with swirls of red.

Hiçbir ?ey bilmiyorsun Jon Kar. H?rs?z olan sizlersiniz. Bütün dünyay? ald?n?z ve özgür insanlar? d??ar?da b?rakmak için Sur'u in?a ettiniz.

My uncle Maegor was cruel," Alysanne was heard to say, "but age is crueler.

What we want is not always what we get.

Thank the Good Master for his patient kindness," Dany said, "and tell him that I will think on all I learned here." She gave her arm to Arstan Whitebeard, to lead her back across the plaza to her litter. Aggo and Jhogo fell in to either side of them, walking with the bowlegged swagger all the horselords affected when forced to dismount and stride the earth like common mortals.

In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume. Now it was perfume that clung to him like perfume,

If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey's head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.

Lo peor no ha pasado. Lo peor no ha hecho más que empezar, y no hay final feliz.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned.

One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it comes.

it felt as if they had all died while he had slept...or perhaps (He) died, and they had forgotten him.

Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.

What is the song of ice and fire?" "It's no song I've ever heard.

Nel mio cuore c'è un debole per storpi, bastardi e cose spezzate. Tyrion Lannister

I have made kings and unmade them. Sansa Stark is my last chance for honor.

Remember this, boy. "All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs