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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.
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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...
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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...
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and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
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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.
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How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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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