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‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you."
[Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice."
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George R.R. Martin

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at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static ...
KAIT ROKOWSKI Fred, you next," the plump woman said.
"I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, wo...
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SEAN BEAN I have something to tell you."

"How, you have something to tell me?"

"You have...
STEVEN BRUST Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."
"What do you think?" his father as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER Knock, Knock."
"Who's there?"
"Olive."
"Olive who?"
"Olive...ooh. I love you, to...
JEAN FERRIS 'It's not you, it's me.'

'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said whe...
KIM FIELDING Haunted

You haunt me in my dreams
I can only hear my drowning screams
Is it bec...
STACE LEE Nice costume," he said.

"Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours."
BECCA FITZPATRICK „You're Ned Stark's bastard, aren't you?“
Jon felt a coldness pass right through him. He pr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I'm not it."
"A can-I girl?" Andrea frowned.
<...
ILONA ANDREWS Who hit you?"
"Why, so you can go beat him up?"
"One of the fringe benefits of being my h...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Tell me it's not true."
He sighed. "Fine. It's not true."
...
And yet...
"Are yo...
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that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
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Newt: My...
J.K. ROWLING Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask.
Something I couldn’t name flashed across h...
JEANIENE FROST When I got out of the movie, I had four text messages from Augustus.

Tell me my copy is m...
JOHN GREEN He pointed the gun at me. Then he looked up at my hand & tilted his head slightly.
- Journe...
STEVE TOLTZ Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration...
NEENA VERMA You okay? (Grace)
Oh, yeah. I’m just fine considering the fact I’ve walked through burning ...
SHERRILYN KENYON Is Jase already gonna marry you?”

I start coughing again. “Uh, No. No, George. I’m...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK I promise I'll never tell."

"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t...
JERI SMITH-READY You’re stuck,” I blurted, his grin died and he blinked.
“Come again?”
I swallowed,...
KRISTEN ASHLEY You can’t tell me
what to do anymore, Travis! I don’t belong to you!”
In the second ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
JOHN GREEN Tell me where the swans go in the winter
I need to know if the mute ones can sing.

T...
KAMAND KOJOURI I remember that look," she said. "It's the one you once gave Carlos right before you threatened to k...
JILL SHALVIS Look at that, Vera.”
I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars.
“Can you tell wh...
A.S. KING He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make ...
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he thinks about? Does he tell you that he lives for you?
MILA GRAY Why did Mother ask you to help me rescue Gelsi?" I asked Leif.
"She thought I could assist you ...
MARIA V. SNYDER Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't...
TARRYN FISHER Don’t leave me,” he whispers.
“Oh, for crying out loud—no! I am not going to go!” I s...
E.L. JAMES I pull on his fingers softly, tired of this talk. “I have something to tell you…”

H...
STEPHANIE LIACI You know all of the young gentlemen better than I do,” Lady Manston continued. “Are there any we...
JULIA QUINN Tell me what to do."
His warm breath tickled my ear. "Relax."
"Please, Noah, I don't wan...
KATIE MCGARRY And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."
She raised her hand. "Don't."
ILONA ANDREWS Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed.
Donegan waited till th...
DEREK LANDY Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.

Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE I love you.”

I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from ...
JENNIFER ECHOLS She moaned, long and low, wanting to arch, to thrash, to scream. Instead she opened her mouth and bi...
ELIZABETH HOYT Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under...
RICK YANCEY You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "D...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller s...
RICK YANCEY You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I lied," I said. ...
"I know it," he said.
"Then do something about it. Do anything, just ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?
my answer : photo? it's not a simple...
NABIL TOUSSI Tell me what I can do to help you feel better."

Well...I always like when you kiss me...<...
KRISTIN CASHORE All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared for
anything.
And thank you for...
V.C. ANDREWS It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. ...
RICHELLE MEAD Oh telescope,
Keep your eye on my only hope,
Lest I blink and be swept off the narrow road...
OWL CITY I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Ma...
MICHAEL GOVE Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace- "You are naked."......"You are so naked"
Julian - "I know"
Grace - "You are ...
SHERRILYN KENYON Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. (on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy M...
MICKEY RIVERS Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one...
JACK JOHNSON DON PEDRO
Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.

BEATRICE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is sorry-
For everything-
For Prentisstown-
For Viola-
For Ben-
F...
PATRICK NESS This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all
the run...
KRESLEY COLE Ohh and the harsh reality
Is they've made grace for you and me
Instead of saving you and me,...
LAURYN HILL Where are Sam and Grace?"

"Ringo left in his car a few hours ago. He must've taken Grace...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."

I still.

"I can't stomach your p...
TAHEREH MAFI Tell me a truth, Senna.“
“I don’t know how.”
“Then tell me a lie.”
“I d...
TARRYN FISHER Only God Can Judge Me
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why ev...
TUPAC SHAKUR If you ask me to kiss you, I will,” he says.
His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST You remind me of a boy I used to know
Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style
And man, coul...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lo...
MADELINE MILLER I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like el...
LISA KLEYPAS Tell me why you don't do it??
"I can't..." what you can't "... It's too far"... why??

DEYTH BANGER Then come here," he said, a bit redundantly, as he had already pulled her with him into an armchair ...
KRISTIN CASHORE And recite to them the news of Abraham
When he said to his father and his people: What do you ...
QURAN Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls.
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.
George!...
J.K. ROWLING There are a lot of bad things out there. Things the Hounds of Heaven were
created to destroy." ...
BREE DESPAIN Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reac...
JOHN STEINBECK He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.
"Yes,...
JERRY SPINELLI It is strange to hear my words
Read back to me.

I don't think I wrote them
To h...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Well, can you tell her that?"
He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."
Guy-speak for,...
PRIYA ARDIS His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of c...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Nice costume," he said.

"Ditto. I can tell you put alot of though into yours."

BECCA FITZPATRICK You can stick your questions up your ass.”
He slammed his tail in front of her. “I don’t ...
G.A. AIKEN Don’t cry for me, Grace. I’m not worth it. (Julian)
Yes you are! (Grace)
You are my sa...
SHERRILYN KENYON You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know.
And I may do it, if I so choose.
You tell me t...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gus leaned back in his chair, appearing satisfied.
"Good," he said. "Cause Maggie's all the nig...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN So, have we solved the secret of happiness?

"I believe so," he said

Are you go...
MITCH ALBOM No. No!” he says.
“I . . .” He looks wildly around the room. For inspiration? For divine ...
E.L. JAMES Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: ...
AMIE KAUFMAN I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What up Brit-Boy?"

"I was just wondering," he said,"about the significance of your canine...
LEE MCCLAIN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
RICK RIORDAN How can you not care?"
"Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
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'That is the only time a man ...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”
“If you want to conquer the world, you...
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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."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid e...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
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"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine a...
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that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different co...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who fears losing has already lost.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"
- Daenerys Targaryen
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn o...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What do we say to the Lord of Death?'

'Not today.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the wi...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Valar Morghulis.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. A...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arm...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."

"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "D...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Every flight begins with a fall.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulde...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No Queen has clean hands.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost...
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, I think not,” Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
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
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
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...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
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