George R. R. Martin Quotes

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.

And he had done his own part here at Riverrun without actually ever taking up arms against the Starks or Tullys. Once he found the Blackfish, he would be free to return to King’s Landing, where he belonged. My place is with my king. With my son. Would Tommen want to know that? The truth could cost the boy his throne. Would you sooner have a father or a chair, lad? Jaime wished he knew the answer. He does like stamping papers with his seal. The boy might not even believe him, to be sure. Cersei would say it was a lie. My sweet sister, the deceiver. He would need to find some way to winkle Tommen from her clutches before the boy became another Joffrey. And whilst at that, he should find the lad a new small council too.

Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced.

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. If that’s true, Lord Eddard, tell me… why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Been on the river thirty years, York. Rafted down to New Orleans when I was just a boy, and worked flatboats and keelboats both before steamers. I been a pilot and a mate and a striker, even a mud clerk. Been everything there is to be in this business, but one thing I never been, and that's a sharper.

من يتولون الحكم مثلنا عليهم أن يفعلوا أشياء آثمة بين الحين والآخر من أجل صالح البلاد، ومهما أصابنا هذا من ألم.

I am afraid but I must be brave

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

He had chosen a hard life... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him

My reading of history has shown me that simply 'being a good man' is not enough. That there are many kings who are good men and yet bad kings. And even good kings sometimes make disastrous decisions. So government is complex, politics is complex.