George R. R. Martin Quotes

The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

The red woman could see the future in the fire, but all that Davos Seaworth ever saw were the shadows of the past:

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all …a day … an hour ...
...One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong.
But not today. It could not be today.

I was not born this morning, Lannister.”
“No, but you’re like to die this afternoon.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

times may change, but men do not.

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

In the end words are just wind.

I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.

Cersei wondered what it would feel like to kiss another woman. Not lightly on the cheek, as was common courtesy amongst ladies of high birth, but full upon the lips. Taena's lips were very full. She wondered what it would feel like to suckle on those breasts, to lay the Myrish woman on her back and push her legs apart and use her as a man would use her.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

Nothing knits a broken realm together so quick as an invading army on its soil.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.