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Quotes About Family

And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him.
~ George R.R. Martin
Un hombre puede ser valiente cuando tiene miedo? - oyó que preguntaba su voz, tenue y lejana. – El el único momento en que puede ser valiente, Bran - le respondió la voz de su padre.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.
~ George R.R. Martin
He is not my father. The thought leapt unbidden to Jon's mind. Lord Eddard Stark is my father. I will not forget him, no matter how many swords they give me. Yet he could scarcely tell Lord Mormont that it was another man's sword he dreamt of...
~ George R.R. Martin
I had feared it from the start, from the moment you first smiled at me and let me touch your hand. My own father could not love me. Why would you if not for gold?
~ George R.R. Martin
A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother.
~ George R.R. Martin
You disappoint me, Arianne. Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.
~ George R.R. Martin
As she watched him, this tall young man with the new beard and the direwolf prowling at his heels, all she could see was the babe they had laid at her breast at Riverrun, so long ago.
~ George R.R. Martin
But they were all dead now, even Arya, everyone but her half-brother, Jon. Some nights she heard talk of him, in the taverns and brothels of the Ragman's Harbor. The Black Bastard of the wall, one man had called him. Even Jon would never know Blind Beth, i bet. That made her sad.
~ George R.R. Martin
A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. He had it all backwards. Arya the lone wolf, still lives, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.
~ George R.R. Martin
I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry?
~ George R.R. Martin
My great beard. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me
~ George R.R. Martin
Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well , she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.
~ George R.R. Martin
Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.
~ George R.R. Martin
A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies and the pack survives.
~ George R.R. Martin
Familiarity is the father of acceptance.
~ George R.R. Martin
Even now, he was a Stark of Winterfell, and his grief and his rage froze hard inside him.
~ George R.R. Martin
A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
~ George R.R. Martin
Heed the wisdom of those who love you best.
~ George R.R. Martin
You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?" "I . . ." I do not know, my lord, she almost said, but that was not what he wanted to hear. Lies and Arbor gold, she thought. "I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?
~ George R.R. Martin
I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I'm flying. We're both laughing, laughing so much that I could hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me.
~ George R.R. Martin
If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
Do you think I do not know that? Oberyn is with me every time I close my eyes." Doran Martell
~ George R.R. Martin
Yes, all Lannisters are lions, and when a Tyrell breaks wind it smells just like a rose.
~ George R.R. Martin