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Quotes About Violence

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.
~ George R. R. Martin
Those are brave men... lets go kill them
~ George R.R. Martin
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
~ George R.R. Martin
I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it's madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.
~ George R.R. Martin
Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.
~ George R.R. Martin
The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.
~ George R.R. Martin
But the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
~ George R.R. Martin
My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark." "I hear he was taller." "Not after Joff took off his head.
~ George R.R. Martin
I could keep you safe," he rasped. "They're all afraid of me. No one would hurt you again, or I'd kill them -Sandor Clegane
~ George R.R. Martin
I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself.
~ George R.R. Martin
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.
~ George R.R. Martin
She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.
~ George R.R. Martin
I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.
~ George R.R. Martin
The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
~ George R.R. Martin
Lawless men are everywhere in this dark time, oh, yes. Men with cold steel and colder hearts. - Varys
~ George R.R. Martin
The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.
~ George R.R. Martin
Arya slid her dagger out and drew it across his throat, as smooth as summer silk. His blood covered her hands in a hot gush and he tried to shout but there was blood in his mouth as well. "Valar morghulis," she whispered as he died.
~ George R.R. Martin
The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
~ George R.R. Martin
All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.
~ George R.R. Martin
Clegane would grunt from time to time, and once Tyrion heard him mutter a curse, but otherwise he fought in a sullen silence. Not Oberyn Martell. "You raped her," he called, feinting. "You murdered her," he said, dodging a looping cut from Gregor's greatsword. "You killed her children," he shouted, slamming the spearpoint into the giant's throat, only to have it glance off the thick steel gorget with a screech.
~ George R.R. Martin
He caught the first man in the back of the knee before they even knew he was there, and the heavy axehead split flesh and bone like rotten wood. Logs that bleed, Tyrion thought inanely as the second man came for him. Tyrion ducked under his sword, lashed out with the axe, the man reeled backward... and Catelyn Stark stepped up behind him and opened his throat. The horseman remembered an urgent engagement elsewhere and galloped off suddenly.
~ George R.R. Martin
A Stone Crow's axe is always sharp, and Shagga's axes are sharpest of all. Once I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off." "Is that why you never brush yours?" The Stone Crows roared and stamped their feet, Shagga hooting loudest of all.
~ George R.R. Martin
Queen Visenya put a sword into her son's hand when he was three. Supposedly the first thing he did with the blade was butcher one of the castle cats.
~ George R.R. Martin
That made her laugh until she screamed. "Mad," someone said, "she's lost her wits," and someone else said, "Make an end," and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she'd done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don't, don't cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold.
~ George R.R. Martin