Quotes from George R.R. Martin

Rage twisted his features. He would hurt her now, and badly, she knew that. Crack. The whip made a sound like thunder. The coil took Viserys around the throat and yanked him backward. He went sprawling in the grass, stunned and choking.

We mean are so weak. Our bodies betray even the noblest of us.

Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.

It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.

When you're done drinking you'll tickle the innkeep to see where he keeps his gold. The way you always do.

Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused to pay the ransom, she was sold to a pillow house, where she rose to become the celebrated courtesan known as the Black Swan, and ruler of Lys in all but name. Alas, her tale, however fascinating, has no bearing upon our present history.)

The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Night to sire terrible half-human children.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem … but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

therefore, he should have seven champions, Queen Visenya decided. Thus did the Kingsguard come into being;|She would choose the knights herself.|Ser Richard Roote; Ser Addison Hill, Bastard of Cornfield; Ser Gregor Goode; Ser Griffith Goode, his brother; Ser Humfrey the Mummer; Ser Robin Darklyn, called Darkrobin; and Ser Corlys Velaryon, Lord Commander.

You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done.

A man who fears battle wins no victories

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid,

He had lived his lies for fourteen years, yet they still haunted him at night.

His grace is not an easy man. Few are, who wear a crown. Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.

Pain is a gift from the gods, Lord Eddard,

I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones.

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one.

Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it.

The girl that they once cheered as the Realm's Delight had grown into a grasping and vindictive woman, men said, a queen as cruel as any king before her. One wit named Rhaenyra "King Maegor with teats," and for a hundred years thereafter "Maegor's Teats" was a common curse amongst Kingslanders.

Tienes el don de hacer reír a los hombres- dijo la septa Lemore a Tyrion mientras secaba los dedos de sus pies. -Deberías estar agradecido al Padre de arriba. Otorga dones a sus hijos. -Es cierto- asintió gratamente. "Y cuando muera, por favor que entierren conmigo una ballesta, así podré agradecer al Padre de arriba por sus dones de la misma manera que agradecí al padre de abajo".

The night is dark and full of terrors...but the fire burns them all away." ?Melisandre

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.

When the gold was half-melted and starting to run, Drogo reached into the flames, snatched out the pot. "Crown!" he roared. "Here. A crown for Cart King!" And upended the pot over the head of the man who had been her brother.

Only a fool makes threats he's not prepared to carry out. If I were to threaten to hit you unless you shut your mouth, and you presumed to speak, what do you think I'd do?