Quotes from George R.R. Martin

You're asking a lame man to teach a cripple how to dance.

It should have been you," she told him. Then she turned back to Bran and began to weep,

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen.

All the best swords have names." "Like Ice," she said. She looked at the blade in her hand. "Does this have a name? Oh, tell me." "Can't you guess?" Jon teased. "Your very favorite thing." Arya seemed puzzled at first. Then it came to her. She was that quick. They said it together: "Needle!

And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. "For dragons fly.

Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.

you would sleep beneath a roof tonight, you must climb off your horses and cross the mud with me. The path of faith, we call it. Only the faithful may cross safely. The wicked are swallowed by the quicksands, or drowned when the tide comes rushing in. None of you are wicked, I hope? Even so, I would be careful where I set my feet. Walk only where I walk, and you shall reach the other side." The path of faith was a crooked one, Brienne could not help but note.

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

be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.

I read bells. Not the sound of bells, no, no, but the feel of bells, the emotion of bells, the bright clanging joy, the hooting-shouting-ringing loudness, the song of the Joined, the togetherness and the sharing of it all.

Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.

Hay peleas que no se pueden ganar con la espada»

My queen? You have a strange look in your eyes. Are you unwell? I was just... remembering.

He must have found that bastard under a cabbage leaf, then,

Bran thought about it. "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.

It please her to think that she made a better king than Robert.

Fuck your lineage," said Gerris. "The dragons won't care about your blood, except maybe how it tastes. You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. They're monsters, not maesters. Quent, is this truly what you want to do?

Os maiores idiotas são por vezes mais espertos do que os homens que deles se riem

If you share your pans with no one, no one can betray you.

He was the blood of the dragon, but now his fire has gone out. He was Aemon Targaryen. And now his watch is ended.

His hands were cold as ice, but he saved us from the dead men, him and his ravens, and he brought us here on his elk." "His elk?" said Bran, wonderstruck. "His elk?" said Meera, startled. "His ravens?" said Jojen. "Hodor?" said Hodor.

He rode through the streets of the city, down from his hill on high, O'er the wynds and the steps and the cobbles, he rode to a woman's sigh. For she was his secret treasure, she was his shame and his bliss. And a chain and a keep are nothing, compared to a woman's kiss.

They would sooner be dicing, drinking, and flicking, I don't doubt, but Lord Randyll believes in putting idle men to work.