Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Kings have no friends, just subjects and enemies.

Jaime watched her eyes. Pretty eyes, he thought, and calm.

Will he now? We'll see. You tell him this, m'lord. You tell him he's bound on marching the wrong way. It's north he should be taking his swords. North, not south. You hear me?

The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Good armor and a good horse means a good ransom if I unseat him.

That is how it is when a man grows as old as Pycelle. Everything you see or hear reminds you of something you saw or heard when you were young.

The High Septon was the true king of Westeros, in all but name.

He's turned against me too, Theon realized. Of late it seemed to him as if the very stones of Winterfell had turned against him. If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

The Red Keep has its secrets, known only to the dead.

What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever.

I sit on the damn iron seat when I must. Does that mean I don't have the same hungers as other men? A bit of wine now and again, a girl squealing in bed, the feel of a horse between my legs? Seven hells, Ned, I want to hit someone.

Ghosts," Irri muttered. "Terrible ghosts. We must not stay here, Khaleesi, this is their place." "I fear no ghosts.

Better to die a knight than live like that.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." ? George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon.

Men fight more fiercely for a king who shares their peril than one who hides behind his mother's skirts.

A Stone Crow's axe is always sharp, and Shagga's axes are sharpest of all. Once I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off." "Is that why you never brush yours?" The Stone Crows roared and stamped their feet, Shagga hooting loudest of all.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

I know that eggs do well to stay out of frying pans.

On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.

A sweet offer . . . yet sweets can be poisoned.

A reader lives a thousand lives.

It is a wise woman who knows her place.