Top 100 George R R Martin Quotes
#1. A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
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#2. His hand shone dully in its light. No good for throttling eunuchs, but heavy enough to smash that slimy smile into a fine red ruin.
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#3. If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.
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#5. Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh and kill each other for his eyes.
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#6. They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
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#7. His dagger was out, poised at her throat. Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
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#8. The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
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#9. the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.
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#13. What was he now? Only Bran the broken boy, Brandon of House Stark, prince of a lost kingdom, lord of a burned castle, heir to ruins.
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#14. so the shoes of their mules made only the softest sound on the rock. The quiet soothed her, and the gentle rocking
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#15. He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.
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#17. Once or twice he pinched his arm with his fingers, really hard, but the only thing that did was make his arm hurt.
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#18. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
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#19. A clever slave deserves a clever master, and you lot all look like fools.
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#21. The outriders came on them an hour from the Green Fork, as the wayn was slogging down a muddy road.
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#22. A man must have some name, is that not so? Biter cannot speak and Biter cannot write, yet his teeth are very sharp, so a man calls him Biter and he smiles. Are you charmed?" Arya
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#23. And Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were more inclined to shout.
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#24. So Ned bent his head and wrote, but where the king had said "my son Joffrey," he scrawled "my heir" instead.
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#25. Sansa cried herself to sleep, Arya brooded silently all day long, and Eddard Stark dreamed of a frozen hell reserved for the Starks of Winterfell.
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#27. Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'
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#28. Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better. Ned
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#29. I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!
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#30. Finally he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him.
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#31. They will look, and they will talk, and some will mock you." Let them mock,
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#33. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat.
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#34. It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
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#36. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
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#37. She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and places
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#39. Your Grace," he said, when he and Cersei were alone, "I was wondering. Are you drunk, or merely stupid?
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#41. When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground.
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#43. If he doesn't give her back, chop off his manhood and feed it to the goats," Tyrion promised. "Provided you can find some.
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#44. Septon Cellador spoke up. "This boy Satin. It's said you mean to make him your steward and squire, in Tollett's place. My lord, the boy's a whore ... a ... dare I say ... a painted catamite from the brothels of Oldtown." And
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#45. Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.
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#47. I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
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#48. We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
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#49. He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing." - Bran
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#50. Swords are no good against the ironmen, unless the men who wield them know how to walk on water.
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#51. You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood. - Tywin & Tyrion
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#52. And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him.
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#53. Shagga son of Dolf will chop off their manhoods and feed them to the crows.
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#55. In his youth, Jon Connington had shared the disdain most knights had for bowmen, but he had grown wiser in exile.
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#57. She don't speak," said the big man in the yellow cloak. "You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers." He turned to the dead woman and said, "What do you say, m'lady? Was he part of it?" Lady Catelyn's eyes never left him. She nodded.
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#58. The Wall was his, the night was dark, and he had a king to face.
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#60. Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.
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#61. Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it.
I will take that as high praise.
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#62. The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
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#63. Look to your khal and see what life is worth, when all the rest is gone.
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#65. He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him ... and fear him.
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#66. Bronn himself, who'd only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, "They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it."
Tyrion had no such delusion.
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#67. I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.
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#69. His father took off the man's head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine.
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#71. So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.
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#73. I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
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#74. These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
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#76. Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.
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#77. The battle proved a victory - at least in part - and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him.
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#78. I sit on the damn iron seat when I must. Does that mean I don't have the same hungers as other men? A bit of wine now and again, a girl squealing in bed, the feel of a horse between my legs? Seven hells, Ned, I want to hit someone.
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#79. The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept.
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#80. I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
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#82. We'll shove our swords up Tywin Lannister's bunghole soon enough,
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#83. The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras
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#84. He was a Stark of Winterfell, and who can say? Mayhaps his name was Brandon. Mayhaps he slept in this very bed in this very room
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#85. How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?"
"In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty," he replied.
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#86. The wall has more moods than Mad King Aerys, they'd say, or sometimes the wall has more mood than a woman.
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#87. Melisandre: I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only snow.
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#88. Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
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#90. Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn't seem right to drown them.
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#92. She smells the way a mermaid ought to smell. She smells of the sea.
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#93. Shit and piss and trash were thrown from windows to the distant street until rain came to wash them away, and like plants in rich soil, the unstable, unreliable buildings rose, driven by the deep human desire to be the one least shat upon.
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#94. A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
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#96. She would be no one if that was what it took. No one had no holes inside her.
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#99. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind ... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
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#100. And Arya, well ... Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be
said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup.
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