Quotes from George R.R. Martin

I was so careful. How could he know? Someone told. Someone always tells.

Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it.

Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.

No ruler can make a people good.

Los hombres siempre aseguran estar hambrientos de verdad, pero cuando se la sirven, pocos encuentran su sabor agradable. Tyrion Lannister

It might have been minutes or it might have been hours; time slept when swords woke.

all sins may be forgiven, but crimes must still be punished.

If you cut a worm in two, you make two worms.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.

At least you look at my face. I'll give you that, you little she-wolf. How do you like it?" "I don't. It's all burned and ugly.

Speaking for the grotesques," he said, "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder." Jon smiled. "Toad sometimes sings too, if you call it singing. Drinking songs he learned in his father's winesink. Pyp says his voice is piss poured over a fart.

No, she wanted to shout to him, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see! Don't you SEE?

Sansa felt as though she were in a dream. "Joffrey is dead," she told the trees, to see if that would wake her. He had not been dead when she left the throne room. He had been on his knees, though, clawing at his throat, tearing at his own skin as he fought to breathe. The

Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble.

He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies" -

Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son …

Si alguien se dibuja una diana en el pecho tiene que ser consciente de que tarde o temprano le van a lanzar flechas. Tyrion Lannister

When he thought of his daughters, he would have wept gladly, but the tears would not come. Even now, he was a Stark of Winterfell, and his grief and his rage froze hard inside him.

Every mummer needs a dancing bear.

The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword.

It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her.