If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.
George R.R. Martin
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And who are you, the proud Lord said
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- Daenerys Targaryen
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'Not today.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Valar Morghulis.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Laughter is poison to fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing burns like the cold.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I look back I am lost.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Winter is coming.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The things I do for love.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has hands like two white spiders.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.
“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN