Spend my time warring and whoring, that’s what I was made for. — George R. R. Martin

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid. — George R. R. Martin

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. — George R. R. Martin

Tyrion shrugged. ‘We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously. — George R.R. Martin

I would choose freedom over comfort every time. — George R. R. Martin

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons. — George R. R. Martin

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. — George R. R. Martin

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. — George R. R. Martin

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. — George R. R. Martin

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

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time. — George R. R. Martin

Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him. — George R. R. Martin

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world. — George R. R. Martin

I’m fond of all my characters so every time one doesn’t make the cut I’m a little disappointed although I understand it. — George R. R. Martin

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. — George R. R. Martin

And any man who must say ‘I am king’ is no true king at all. — George R. R. Martin

En malas manos, una moneda es tan peligrosa como una espada. — George R.R. Martin

Do the dead frighten you? — George R. R. Martin

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. — George R. R. Martin

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter — George R. R. Martin

A dead enemy is a joy forever — George R.R. Martin

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one — George R.R. Martin

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It’s the ones who look innocent I need to beware. — George R. R. Martin

There are things to be learned even from the dead. — George R. R. Martin

Can they love without a word for it? — George R. R. Martin

The more people you love, the weaker you are. — George R. R. Martin

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what’s going to happen. — George R. R. Martin

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned?–Stannis — George R. R. Martin

Love is madness, and lust is poison. — George R. R. Martin

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories–I love the short story. — George R. R. Martin

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. — George R. R. Martin

People learn to love their chains — George R.R. Martin

You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted. — George R.R. Martin

I love you too, sweet sister. But you’re a fool. A beautiful golden fool. — George R. R. Martin

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate. — George R. R. Martin

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty. — George R. R. Martin

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. — George R. R. Martin

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same. — George R. R. Martin

I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean. — George R.R. Martin

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night. — George R. R. Martin

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger. — George R. R. Martin

Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds. — George R.R. Martin

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe. — George R. R. Martin

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man’s nature.––Lyanna — George R. R. Martin

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant. — George R. R. Martin

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew. — George R. R. Martin

There is no shame in loving. — George R.R. Martin

I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act. — George R.R. Martin

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it?–Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys — George R.R. Martin

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. — George R. R. Martin

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin

The best calumnies are spiced with truth. — George R. R. Martin

Sometimes there is truth in dreams. — George R.R. Martin

When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become. — George R.R. Martin

Half–truths are worth more than outright lies. — George R. R. Martin

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. — George R. R. Martin

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary. — George R. R. Martin

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found. — George R. R. Martin

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up. — George R. R. Martin

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it. — George R. R. Martin

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. — George R. R. Martin

You want to know the horrible truth ? I cant even remember what she looked like! I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted..and 7 kingdoms couldnt fill the hole she left behind — George R.R. Martin

You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men. — George R. R. Martin

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns. — George R. R. Martin

I’ve never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they’re only men with the useful bits cut off. — George R. R. Martin

For the night is dark and full of terrors. — George R. R. Martin

In my dreams, I kill him every night,’ Robert admitted. ‘A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves’. — George R. R. Martin

Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends. — George R. R. Martin

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. — George R. R. Martin

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night. — George R. R. Martin

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me — Maester Cressen

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. — George R. R. Martin

What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves… — George R.R. Martin

Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. ‘The night is dark and full of turnips,’ he announced in a solemn voice. ‘Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy. — George R.R. Martin

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons. — George R. R. Martin

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse. — George R. R. Martin

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more. — George R. R. Martin

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams? — George R. R. Martin

It’s not,’ Mormont told him. ‘Gods save us, boy, you’re not blind and you’re not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne? — George R. R. Martin

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them. — George R. R. Martin

I know nothing, Ygritte, he [Jon Snow] thought, and perhaps I never will. — George R.R. Martin

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought. — George R. R. Martin

What could he have done, one man against so many?’ He could have tried, Brienne thought. — George R. R. Martin

She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell. — George R.R. Martin

I am the blood of the dragon, she thought. If they are monsters, so am I. — George R.R. Martin

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue. — George R. R. Martin

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids’ genre. — George R. R. Martin

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go. — George R. R. Martin

Kings rise and fall, Dunk thought, and cows and smallfolk go about their business. — George R.R. Martin

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate. — George R. R. Martin

The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me. — George R.R. Martin

In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight. — Jaime

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. — George R. R. Martin

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done. — George R. R. Martin

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon — George R. R. Martin

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him. — George R. R. Martin

The gods heard my prayer, she thought. She felt so numb and dreamy. My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. — George R.R. Martin

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves. — George R. R. Martin