Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

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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

Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

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Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

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