I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged. - George R.R. Martin
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. - George R.R. Martin
We're children. We're supposed to be childish. - George R.R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. - George R.R. Martin
I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.You gave me help when I needed it Jon Snow said.I gave you nothing, Tyrion said. Words.Then give your words to Bran too. - George R.R. Martin
Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first. - George R.R. Martin
Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said. - George R.R. Martin
Words are winds. - George R.R. Martin
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. - George R.R. Martin
Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough. - George R.R. Martin
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up. - George R.R. Martin
The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes - George R.R. Martin
Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave. - George R.R. Martin
What a man can do and what a man will do are two different things. - George R.R. Martin
The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth. - George R.R. Martin
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. - George R.R. Martin
A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands. - George R.R. Martin
Not a queen," said Dany. "A khaleesi. - George R.R. Martin
Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. - George R.R. Martin
I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. - George R.R. Martin
It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again. - George R.R. Martin
A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers. - George R.R. Martin
I only need half my wits to be a match for you. - George R.R. Martin
Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. - George R.R. Martin
Io continuerò a scrivere. Un capitolo alla volta, una pagina alla volta, una parola alla volta, è tutto quello che so fare. - George R.R. Martin
The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin, - George R.R. Martin
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. - George R.R. Martin
Das Herz lügt, und der Kopf spielt uns Tricks vor, die Augen aber sehen die Wahrheit. - George R.R. Martin
Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it. - George R.R. Martin
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness. - George R.R. Martin
È possibile che un uomo che ha paura possa anche essere coraggioso? Possibile? Bran, è quella l’unica situazione in cui si fa strada il coraggio. - George R.R. Martin
I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they were me, and I was Union, and for a single solitary glittering instant I was the universe. - George R.R. Martin
A mí dadme dulces mentiras y guardaos vuestras amargas verdades. - George R.R. Martin
My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long. - George R.R. Martin
Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen - George R.R. Martin
Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see. - George R.R. Martin
Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons. - George R.R. Martin
Wolves and women wed for life. - George R.R. Martin
The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay. - George R.R. Martin
Every flight begins with a fall - George R.R. Martin
Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore. - George R.R. Martin
La brujería es la salsa que vierten los idiotas sobre el fracaso para ocultar el sabor de su incompetencia"-Tyrion Lannister - George R.R. Martin
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. - George R.R. Martin
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. - George R.R. Martin
No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow. - George R.R. Martin
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. - George R.R. Martin
Hodor! - George R.R. Martin
It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him. - George R.R. Martin
Shall I prick my prick as well? - George R.R. Martin
Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves. - George R.R. Martin
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. - George R.R. Martin
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. - George R.R. Martin