George R.R. Martin Quotes - Page 3

Flies are the dead man's revenge.
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I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.
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I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark
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Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.
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The things I do for love.
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In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.
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Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn
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Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.
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The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.
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Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.
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His long wait is almost done. I am sending Balon Swann to Sunspear, to deliver him the head of Gregor Clegane.” Ser Balon would have another task as well, but that part was best left unsaid.“Ah.” Ser Harys Swyft fumbled at his funny little beard with thumb and forefinger. “He is dead then? Ser Gregor?”“I would think so, my lord,” Aurane Waters said dryly. “I am told that removing the head from the body is often mortal.
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worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.
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That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
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all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.
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Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm....
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My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.
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Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.
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His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh
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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him.
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Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.
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Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.
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Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.
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I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.
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When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.
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Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.
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His wits have gone dark as his eyes
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She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.
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A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.
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My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.
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Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?
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My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.
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I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.
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You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.
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No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.
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No wounded man shall sound me and live.
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We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
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She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.
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Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
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He is a sweet boy, quick to laugh, easy to love.
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It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.
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I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.
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Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.
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A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
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You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
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Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.
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The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ‘and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. ‘Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, ‘but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.
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No,” said Bran. “I haven’t. And if I have it doesn’t matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
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Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.
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There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.
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Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos puffed up with pride. We do not kill to serve some lord, to fatten our purses, to stroke our vanity. We never give the gift to please ourselves. Nor do we choose the ones we kill. We are but servants of the God of Many Faces.""Valar dohaeris." All men must serve."You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.""I obey. I can be humbler than anyone."That made him chuckle. "You will be the very goddess of humility, I am sure. But can you pay the price?""What price?""The price is you. The price is all you have and all you ever hope to have. We took your eyes and gave them back. Next we will take your ears, and you will walk in silence. You will give us your legs and crawl. You will be no one's daughter, no one's wife, no one's mother. Your name will be a lie, and the very face you wear will not be your own.
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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.
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If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.
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A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both,
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A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?
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Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
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It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.
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Lem glowered. "Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foraging. the wolves as well, so why not us? no one robbed you, dog. You just been good and foraged.
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...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
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