Quotes from George R.R. Martin

The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. The maester stood on the windswept balcony outside his chambers. It was here the ravens came, after long flight. Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him,

Get the keys and remove those chains from him, before you make me rue the day I raped your mother. ~ Roose Bolton to his son

Sometimes the knights are the monsters, Bran.

There was this to be said for weddings over battles, at least; it was less likely that someone would cut off your nose.

He is a sweet boy, quick to laugh, easy to love.

What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.…

Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, and those magnificent destriers shit everywhere.

winter is coming." "Yes," Catelyn agreed. The words gave her a chill, as they always did. The Stark words. Every noble house had its words. Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. All but the Starks. Winter is coming, said the Stark words.

She saw a roof go up, flames licking at the belly of the night with hot orange tongues as the thatch caught.

There's much to be said for taking people unawares. You never know what you might learn.

Craster is his own man. He has sworn us no vows. Nor is he subject to our laws. Your heart is noble, Jon, but learn a lesson here. We cannot set the world to rights. That is not our purpose. The Night's Watch has other wars to fight.

The council must issue an edict. Any man heard speaking of incest or calling Joff a bastard should lose his tongue for it." "A prudent measure," said Grand Maester Pycelle, his chain of office clinking as he nodded. "A folly," sighed Tyrion. "When you tear out a man's tongue you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

She's warm and smart and funny and she can kiss a man or slit his throat.

all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh and kill each other for his eyes.

As a boy, he used to run across this bridge, even in the black of night. Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.

An ugly smile. An ugly soul.

For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction.

O que é o desejo do nosso coração?" "A vingança," a voz dele era baixa, como se tivesse receio de que alguém estivesse ouvindo. "A justiça," Príncipe Doran pressionou o dragão de ônix contra a palma da mão dela com seus dedos inchados e gotosos, e murmurou "Fogo e sangue.

When I was thirteen, I wed a crofter's daughter. Or so I thought her. I was blind with love for her, and thought she felt the same for me, but my father rubbed my face in the truth. My bride was a whore Jaime had hired to give me my first taste of manhood.

The Night's Watch is thousands of years old," he said, "but I'll wager Lord Snow's the first brother ever honored for burning down the Lord Commander's Tower.

Beware," the woman in the red lacquer mask said. "Of whom?" "Of all. They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power.

Maester Luwin made a little boy of clay, baked him till he was hard and brittle, dressed him in Bran's clothes, and flung him off a roof. Bran remembered the way he shattered. "But I never fall," he said, falling.

It was the singers who taught the First Men to send messages by raven … but in those days, the birds would speak the words. The trees remember, but men forget, and so now they write the messages on parchment and tie them round the feet of birds who have never shared their skin." Old