George R. R. Martin Quotes

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He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

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The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

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Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

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In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread!

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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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Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

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Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

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For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

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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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When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

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Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

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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.

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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

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