Quotes from George R.R. Martin

I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that?

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome. Particularly since he always found himself wondering if the japes and laughter were directed at him.

Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won't like what you'd become.

I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery. So it is at court. The King's Justice must be fearsome, the master of coin must be frugal, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard must be valiant … and the master of whisperers must be sly and obsequious and without scruple. A courageous informer would be as useless as a cowardly knight.

one more book, he had told himself, then i'll stop. one more folio, just one more. one more page then i'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. "I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about", he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it. Ladies and Gentlemen, SAMWELL TARLY IS ONE OF US!

She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them.

He could help you, He can do sums, and he knows how to read and write. I know Chett can't read, and Clydas has weak eyes. Sam read every book in his father's library. He'd be good with the ravens too. Animals seem to like him. Ghost took to him straight off. There's a lot he could do, besides fighting. The Night's Watch needs every man. Why kill one, to no end? Make use of him instead.

He offers the honeycomb with one hand and shows the whip with the other.

I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter … but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.

On her way where?" "Wherever whores go.

How time seemed to blur and slow and even stop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even your body.

I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.

The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. And those are his good points.

The world's nothing but a mean bully, that's a fact. Even when you've big misfortunes threatening to drop on your head, small ones still take every chance to prick your toes.

You haggle like a crone with a codfish.

Steel weighs more than wind.

Lord Balon grunted. "Casterly Rock has never fallen." "Until now." Theon smiled. And how sweet that will be. His father did not return the smile. "So this is why Robb Stark sends you back to me, after so long? So you might win my consent to this plan of his?" "It is my plan, not Robb's," Theon said proudly. Mine, as the victory will be mine, and in time the

When Edd caught sight of the ragged band of wildlings, he pursed his lips and gave the giant a long look. "Might need some butter to slide that one through the tunnel, m'lord. Shall I send someone to the larder?" "Oh, I think he'll fit. Unbuttered." So

Miramos las mismas estrellas y vemos cosas tan distintas. Jon Nieve

Reading books by candlelight will make you blind.

the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.

We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.