George R. R. Martin Quotes

The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon

It’s the loneliness of people trapped within themselves. The loneliness of people who have said the wrong thing so often that they don’t have the courage to say anything anymore.

Prince Aenys was the first to marry. In 22 AC, he wed the Lady Alyssa, the maiden daughter of the Lord of the Tides, Aethan Velaryon, King Aegon’s lord admiral and master of ships. She was fifteen, the same age as the prince, and shared his silvery hair and purple eyes as well, for the Velaryons were an ancient family descended from Valyrian stock. King Aegon’s own mother had been a Velaryon, so the marriage was reckoned one of cousin to cousin. fruitful. The following year, Alyssa gave birth to a daughter. Prince Aenys named her Rhaena, in honor of his mother. Like her father, the girl was small at birth, but unlike him she proved to be a happy, healthy child, with lively lilac eyes and hair that shone like beaten silver.

الموت نهائي تماماً ولا رجعة منه، بينما الحياة ملأى بالاحتمالات.

Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won’t like what you’d become.

– Az alvás jó – bólintott Tyrion. – A könyvek pedig még jobbak.

Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

But the girl did not have sense enough to be afraid.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Think of it. We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. We invent beauty. Faiths, political movements, high ideals, belief in love and fellowship. All of them are lies. We tell those lies, among others, endless others. We improve on history and myth and religion, make each more beautiful, better, easier to believe in. Our lies are not perfect, of course. The truths are too big. But perhaps someday we will find one great lie that all humanity can use.

Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion — and yet loves so much he craves for more.

Warum sollte der Tod einen Mann ehrlicher oder gar klüger machen? Die Toten sind wahrscheinlich dumme Kerle, die sich unaufhörlich beklagen - die Erde ist zu kalt, mein Grabstein sollte größer sein, warum hat er mehr Würmer als ich...

Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord — ”
“They won’t,” Tyrion said. “They are too different and yet too much alike, and neither could ever stomach the other.

You have another choice, though,” Prince Baelor said quietly. “Whether it is a better choice or a worse one, I cannot say, but I remind you that any knight accused of a crime has the right to demand trial by combat. So I ask you once again, Ser Duncan the Tall — how good a knight are you? Truly?