Quotes from George R.R. Martin

As hard as birth can be, Brienne, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being torn apart. Would that there were five of me, one for each child, so I might keep them all safe." - Lady Catelyn

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good.

Cersei always resented being excluded from power on account of her sex.

Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion—and yet loves so much he craves for more.

It's not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Make me a water dancer and a wolf and not afraid again, ever.

After the bone-grinding cold of the lands beyond the Wall, the caves were blessedly warm, and when the chill crept out of the rock the singers would light fires to drive it off again. Down here there was no wind, no snow, no ice, no dead things reaching out to grab you, only dreams and rushlight and the kisses of the ravens. And the whisperer in darkness.

Might have punctured a lung, if he had a lung. Most trees don't, as a rule.

Ninguna batalla está perdida hasta que se pelea

Maybe it's the rogue in me, the part of me that loves to color outside the lines, but the truth is, I don't have much respect for genre barriers.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces.

It is hard to die unmourned.

All knights must bleed, Jaime," Ser Arthur Dayne had said, when he saw. "Blood is the seal of our devotion." With dawn he tapped him on the shoulder; the pale blade was so sharp that even that light touch cut through Jaime's tunic, so he bled anew. He never felt it. A boy knelt; a knight rose. The Young Lion, not the Kingslayer. But that was long ago, and the boy was dead.

Lions care not for the opinions of sheep.

A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to.

There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above.

I'm not an owl. I'm a wolf. I'll howl. -Arya Stark

I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal . . . and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.

What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,

Then the trees closed in around her, black as pitch and full of ghosts and memories.

I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

The smell of food made him realize how ravenous he was. There was hot bread and honey, a bowl of pease porridge, a skewer of roast onions and well-charred meat. He sat by the tray, pulled apart the bread with his hands, and stuffed some into his mouth.