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Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Barefoot surefoot lightfoot, she sang under her breath. I am the ghost in Harrenhal.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Barristan," she called, "I know what quality a king needs most." "Courage, Your Grace?" "Cheeks like iron," she teased. "All I do is sit.
~ George R.R. Martin
one naked girl with a mud up to her knees could not seem to take her eyes off Tyrion. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face and stuck his tongue out and the girl began to cry
~ George R.R. Martin
It beat down on Ned's head, warm as blood and relentless as old guilts.
~ George R.R. Martin
I loved a maid as red as autumn [...] with sunset in her hair.
~ George R.R. Martin
That is a sexist and, if I may dare say so, ungallant slander upon the fair sex, and I am astonished to hear it coming from your mouth.
~ George R.R. Martin
They have been with you every day, my lord. Sansa prays quietly, but Arya …" He hesitated. "She has not said a word since they brought you back. She is a fierce little thing, my lord. I have never seen such anger in a girl.
~ George R.R. Martin
He was a bee in a stone honeycomb, and someone had cut off his wings.
~ George R.R. Martin
Dark wings, dark words," Ned said grimly.
~ George R.R. Martin
Titles were cheaper than dirt, and the riverlands were full of ruined castles, standing desolate amidst untended fields and burned villages.
~ George R.R. Martin
Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...
~ George R.R. Martin
Ng??i ??c sách s?ng m?t nghìn cu?c s?ng tr??c khi anh ta ch?t, còn ng??i không ??c s?ng ch? m?t cu?c ??i
~ George R.R. Martin
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts.
~ George R.R. Martin
Kill the boy and let the man be born.
~ George R.R. Martin
Can our morrows be foretold? Your Grace might ask instead should our morrows be foretold? And to that I should answer no. Some doors are best left closed. See that you close mine as you leave.
~ George R.R. Martin
once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder.
~ George R.R. Martin
Each of the conquered kingdoms had its own laws and traditions. King Aegon did little to interfere with those. He allowed his lords to continue to rule much as they always had, with all the same powers and prerogatives. The laws of inheritance and succession remained unchanged, the existing feudal structures were confirmed, lords both great and small retained the power of pit and gallows on their own land, and the privilege of the first night wherever that custom had formerly prevailed.
~ George R.R. Martin
He was not born wealthy. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
~ George R.R. Martin
Tudo o que desejava era que as coisas fossem agradáveis e bonitas, como eram nas canções.
~ George R.R. Martin
Terror filled her. She could not go back and she was afraid to stay here, but how could she go on?" - Dany
~ George R.R. Martin
My tongue lied my eyes shouted the truth.
~ George R.R. Martin
You have a bold tongue, little man. One day someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
~ George R.R. Martin
I arrived here a King's Hand, riding through the gates at the head of my own sworn men, Tyrion reflected, and I leave like a rat scuttling through the dark, holding hands with a spider.
~ George R.R. Martin