Quotes from George R.R. Martin

I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten.

Lord Baelish, what you suggest is treason." "Only if we lose.

Honor set you on the kingsroad … and honor brought you back.

I will answer injustice with justice.

Mormont shifted in his seat, frowning. "Your brother Robb has been crowned King in the North. You and Aemon have that in common. A king for a brother." "And this too," said Jon. "A vow.

Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow. A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd. From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire.…

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

Queen Visenya put a sword into her son's hand when he was three. Supposedly the first thing he did with the blade was butcher one of the castle cats.

Get five or six," Bast said. "It's getting cold at night. Winter's coming." The innkeeper smiled. "I'm sure Martin will be flattered.

Sixteen Targaryens followed Aegon the Dragon to the Iron Throne, before the dynasty was at last toppled in Robert's Rebellion. They numbered amongst them wise men and foolish, cruel men and kind, good men and evil. Yet if the dragon kings are considered solely on the basis of their legacies, the laws and institutions and improvements they left behind, the name of King Aegon I belongs near the top of the list, in peace as well as war.

The Iron Throne was forged with fire and steel and terror, it is said, but once the throne had cooled, it became the seat of justice for all Westeros.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Beneath the gold, the bitter steel.

Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

Ride with them, eat with them, fight with them, for as long as it takes.

His passion was a tragedy for all of us, but it was real, and pure, and nothing to be made mock of.

Aren't you afraid? The gods might send you down to some terrible hell for all the evil you've done." "What evil?" He laughed. "What gods?

I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously. I am a voracious consumer of books, tapes, holoplays, fictions and drama and histories of all sorts. I have experimented with dreamdust.

Here, m'lord." She put her hands over his eyes from behind. "Can you guess what I'm wearing?" "Nothing?" "Oh, you're so smart," she pouted, snatching her hands away. "How did you know?" "You're very beautiful in nothing". "Am I?" She said. "Am I truly?" "Oh yes." "Then shouldn't you be fucking me instead of talking?

Si dejas que se den cuenta de que sus palabras te hacen daño, jamás te librarás de las burlas.

We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.

Ser Jorah was not a handsome man. He had a neck and shoulders like a bull, and coarse black hair covered his arms and chest so thickly that there was none left for his head.

Se la vita non valeva nulla, quanto poteva valere la morte?