Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Princess Aerea had known Vermithor and Silverwing during her time at court, but she had never been allowed too close to them. Here she could visit with the dragons as often as she liked; the hatchlings, the young drakes, her mother's Dreamfyre... and greatest of them all, Balerion and Vhagar, huge and ancient and sleepy, but still terrifying when they woke and stirred and spread their wings.

it was well known among rivermen that having a preacher and a gray mare on board was an invitation to disaster.

Seven hundred feet above, the sentries heard and raised their warhorns to their lips. The sound rang out, echoing off the Wall and out across the world. Ahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. One long blast. For a thousand years or more, that sound had meant rangers coming home. Today it meant something else. Today it called the free folk to their new homes.

Knowledge is what man is all about. People like you have tried to hold back progress since the beginning of time. But they failed, and you failed. Man needs to know." "Maybe," Sanders said. "But is that the only thing man needs? I don't think so. I think he also needs mystery, and poetry, and romance. I think he needs a few unanswered questions, to make him brood and wonder.

I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago. We all did. Once I was as young as you.

If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both.

Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he'd made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he'd paid to keep them.

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.

Call it boldness, call it madness, call it fortune or the will of the gods or the caprice of dragons. Who can know the mind of such a beast?

We had never built, never created, only stolen your garments and lived in your cities and fed ourselves on your life, your vitality, your very blood—but we could create, given a chance, we had it within us to whisper stories of cities of our own. The red thirst has been a curse, has made my race and yours enemies, has robbed my people of all noble aspirations.

The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.

A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.

The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras

You ought to thank me for killing your enemy," Jon said finally, "and curse me for killing your friend.

No beast was as noisy as man.

No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.

Who can presume to know the heart of a dragon?

Winter's here. Time for us to go. No better way to die than sword in hand.

A young girl she might be, but Daenerys Targaryen was the only thing that held them all together.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.

He will not be three forever. And winter is coming.

Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy.