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Quotes About Destiny

Valar morghulis. - Valar dohaeris. (c) George R. Martin -- All men must die. - All men must serve.
~ George R.R. Martin
Mine is the blood of the dragon.
~ George R.R. Martin
Who are you? We we're king's men when we began, the man told her, but king's men must have a king, and we have none. We were brothers too, but now our brotherhood is broken. I do not know who we are, if truth be told, nor where we might be going. I only know the road is dark. The fires have not shown me what lies at its end.
~ George R.R. Martin
She had a warrior's heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman.
~ George R.R. Martin
To go north, you must go south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light, you must pass beneath the shadow.
~ George R.R. Martin
Different roads sometimes leads to the same castle. Who knows?
~ George R.R. Martin
What was he now? Only Bran the broken boy, Brandon of House Stark, prince of a lost kingdom, lord of a burned castle, heir to ruins.
~ George R.R. Martin
We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.
~ George R.R. Martin
We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
~ George R.R. Martin
My life was writ in red, in blood and wine.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was the end of the world. And we are going beyond it.
~ George R.R. Martin
Daella is sweet and kind and gentle. She has such a tender heart. Give me time, and I will find a lord to cherish her. Not every Targaryen needs to wield a sword and ride a dragon.
~ George R.R. Martin
He has a song," the man replied. "He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.
~ George R.R. Martin
You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly... unless you open your eye." - Jojen
~ George R.R. Martin
Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.
~ George R.R. Martin
The boys were going to a place that none had ever been before, to serve an order that had been the enemy of their kith and kin for thousands of years, yet Jon saw no tears, heard no wailing mothers. These are winter's people, [...] tears freeze upon your cheeks where they come from.
~ George R.R. Martin
Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.
~ George R.R. Martin
That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.
~ George R.R. Martin
A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.
~ George R.R. Martin
To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.
~ George R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin
~ All men must die
Ask yourself why Aemon Targaryan was allowed to waste his life upon the Wall when by rights he should have been raised to archmaester. His blood was why. He could not be trusted.
~ George R.R. Martin
Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start weeping again. Instead she thrust out her lip defiantly and said, "You're running too." "I am," he confessed. "but I am running TO and you are running FROM, and there's a world of difference there.
~ George R.R. Martin
What is the song of ice and fire?" "It's no song I've ever heard.
~ George R.R. Martin