George R. R. Martin Quotes

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

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

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

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

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

"If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.

"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.

"...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
"...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is."

My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.

"When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.