Top 100 R R Martin Quotes
#1. A bite." She touched the hilt of her sword, the sword that he had given her. Oathkeeper. "My lord, you gave me a quest.
George R R Martin
#2. A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#4. Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
George R R Martin
#7. I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.
George R R Martin
#8. 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.
George R R Martin
#10. Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
George R R Martin
#13. My nephew is not fit to sit a privy, let alone the Iron Throne.
George R R Martin
#14. He has Lightbringer. He talks of heads upon the walls of Winterfell. He knows about the spearwives and their number." He knows about Mance Rayder. "No. There is truth in there.
George R R Martin
#15. She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
George R R Martin
#16. Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.
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#17. I was so careful. How could he know?
Someone told. Someone always tells.
George R R Martin
#19. Wash out her private parts with lye and throw her in a dungeon, Tarly commanded.
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#20. His blood is bad. He needs to be leeched. The leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. No man can think so full of anger.
George R R Martin
#21. You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath
George R R Martin
#22. If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dorne, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins.
George R R Martin
#23. This will be my grand adventure." "Men die on grand adventures.
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#24. Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.
George R R Martin
#26. You disappoint me, Arianne.
Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.
George R R Martin
#27. Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
George R R Martin
#29. I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
George R R Martin
#31. Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both. Perhaps he just wants to be warm for once in his life.
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#32. 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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#34. If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
George R R Martin
#35. P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.
Martin Seligman
#36. Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.
George R R Martin
#37. In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'.
George R R Martin
#38. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
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#40. Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs
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#41. Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers.
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#42. Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes.
George R R Martin
#46. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.
George R R Martin
#47. A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both,
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#48. Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. - Arianne
George R R Martin
#51. Craster is his own man. He has sworn us no vows. Nor is he subject to our laws. Your heart is noble, Jon, but learn a lesson here. We cannot set the world to rights. That is not our purpose. The Night's Watch has other wars to fight.
George R R Martin
#55. The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.
George R R Martin
#57. Rebellion makes for queer bedfellows. And none more queer than this fat man and me,
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#58. So the wolfling is leaving his den to play among the lions, he said in a voice of quiet satisfaction.
George R R Martin
#60. I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
George R R Martin
#62. Once a horse is broken to the saddle, any man can mount him", he said in a soft voice.. "Once a beast's been joined to a man, any skinchanger can slip inside of him and ride him.
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#63. Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
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#64. She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.
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#65. Place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in his solar,
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#66. Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.
George R R Martin
#67. I left the next morning ... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder
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#68. Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
George R R Martin
#70. Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?
George R R Martin
#72. The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon
George R R Martin
#73. 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.
George R R Martin
#74. I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
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#75. His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.
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#76. He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
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#77. I don't want to marry you,' Sansa wailed. 'You chopped off my father's head!
George R R Martin
#78. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
George R R Martin
#79. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.
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#80. What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.
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#81. I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears.
George R R Martin
#83. That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
George R R Martin
#85. Aye," she said, "and hands strong enough to twist a man's head off his shoulders, if he takes a mind to.
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#86. oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows)
George R R Martin
#87. The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.
George R R Martin
#88. Warn you, Lannister, you'll find no inns at the Wall," he had said, looking down on him. "No doubt you'll find some place to put me," Tyrion had replied. "As you might have noticed, I'm small.
George R R Martin
#89. It's so beautiful here, I don't want to think about everything dying.
George R R Martin
#90. I am a knight - " "So I've noted. Tell me - did Cersei have you knighted before or after she took you into her bed?" The flicker in Lancel's green eyes was all the admission Tyrion needed. So Varys told it true. Well, no one can ever claim that my sister does not love her family.
George R R Martin
#93. If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him
valar morghulis.
Jaqen H'ghar, A Clash of Kings
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#94. What a man can do and what a man will do are two different things.
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#97. Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.
George R R Martin
#99. Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though the short, neat beard he favored had gone grey. All in all, he was an ordinary man, distinguished only by his love of written words.
George R R Martin
#100. Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.
George R R Martin
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