George R. R. Martin Quotes

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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

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I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, Fly, you fools. What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.

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The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

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Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

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Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

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People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

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His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

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It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

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Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

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His dagger was out, poised at her throat. Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.

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They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

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Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

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There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

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There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

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Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.

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The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

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Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

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Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.

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Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

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What do you like to do? She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. Needlework. Very restful, isn't it? Well, said Arya, not the way I do it.

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Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

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What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

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Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

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She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

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Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

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Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

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We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

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He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

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Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.

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