Game of Thrones Quotes - George RR Martin

“If I look back I am lost.”

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

"Only the sound of the waves pounding remained, a roar no man could still."

"'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”

And there is only one thing we say to Death: "'Not today.'"

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

"We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

“Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”

“The things I do for love.”

“What do we say to the Lord of Death?"
"Not today.”

“Everything's better with some wine in the belly.”

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”

"Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost.”

“There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.”

“Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.”

“Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature."

“I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”

"The more people you love, the weaker you are."

“She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.”

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...”

“Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.”

“'Men are mad and gods are madder,' she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement."

“And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.”

“She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.”

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

"Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off."

"Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less."

Tyrion: They say it’s impregnable.
Bronn: Give ten good men and some climbing spikes and I’ll “impregnate” the bitch.
Tyrion: I like you.

“She was tired of Jamie balking her. No one had ever balked her lord father. When Tywin Lannister spoke, men obeyed. When Cersei spoke, they felt free to counsol her, to contradict her, even refuse her. It is all because I am a woman. Because I cannot fight them with a sword."

"All men must die."

"Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.”

"Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward."

"True knights are as rare as virgins in a whorehouse."

“Catelyn had never liked this godswood.

She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.”

“Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.”

“She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.”

“He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon."

“Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.”

“Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.”

“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."

"In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness."

"Hodor."

“Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.”

“So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm."

“This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.”

"Why would Petyr lie to me?”
"Why does a bear shit in the woods?” he demanded, “Because it is his nature.”

“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”

"Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."

“She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.”

“But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.”

"You should have learned by now, none of us get the things we want."

“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"

"All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live."

He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different.”
Sansa backed away from him. “You're awful.”
“I'm honest. It’s the world that’s awful.”

“Let him grow taller, she asked the gods.  Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty.  Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms.  Please, please, please.”

“The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.”

“'I can’t fly!'
'You’re flying right now.'
'I’m falling!'
'Every flight begins with a fall,' the crow said. 'Look down.'”

“A mad man sees what he sees.”

“You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.”

“You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. And this is only hranna, child. There are hundred kinds of grass out there, grasses as yellow as lemon and as dark as indigo, blue grasses and orange grasses and grasses as rainbows.”

“Everyone who isn't us is an enemy."

"You're the moon of my life that's all I know and all I need to know and if this is a dream I'll kill the man who tries to wake me."

“Her name is Brienne,” Jaime said. “Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?”
Her broad homely face turned red. “Yes.”
”Oh, good,” Jaime said. “I only rescue maidens.”

"Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner."

"Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it."

“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.”
"What...what game?”
“The only game. The game of thrones.”

“Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.”

"You're going to fight that?"
"I'm going to kill that."

Cersei: Pour the Lady Sansa some wine.
Sansa:  I’m not thirsty.
Cersei: So? I didn’t offer you water.

"She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust."

"Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves."

"A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy, I’ve heard it said."

"I am a lioness. I will not cringe for them."

"She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time."

"She's been fucking Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack and probably Moon Boy for all I know."

"The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity."

Silver Linings Playbook Quotes


"I do this! Time after time after time! I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I'm empty! I have nothing!"

Pat:  How old are you?
Tiffany:  Old enough to have a marriage end and not wind up in a mental hospital.

"There's always going to be a part of me that's sloppy and dirty, but I like that. With all the other parts of myself. Can you say the same about yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you any good at that?"

Pat:  You have poor social skills. You have a problem.
Tiffany:  I have a problem? You say more inappropriate things than appropriate things.

Tiffany:  You know, for a while, I thought you were the best thing that ever happened to me. But now I'm starting to think you're the worst.
Pat:  Of course you do. Come on, let's go dance.

"The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up."

"I'm just a crazy slut with a dead husband!"

"Humanity is just nasty, and there's no silver lining."

"You know what? Forget I offered to help you. Forget the entire fucking idea. Because that must have been fucking crazy, because I'm so much crazier than you!"

"I'm going to come over and break that camera over your head, and come back and interview you about what it's like to have that camera broken over your head."

"It means, you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna take all this negativity and I'm gonna use it as fuel, I'm gonna find a silver lining, that's what I'm gonna do. And that's no bullshit. That's no bullshit. That takes work and that's the truth."

Pat: Stupid fucking book!  I just can't believe Nikki's teaching that book to the kids. I mean the whole time, let me just break it down for you, the whole time you're rooting for this Hemingway guy to survive the war and to be with the woman that he loves, Catherine Barkley...
Dolores: It's four o'clock in the morning, Pat.
Pat: ...and he does. He does. He survives the war, after getting blown up he survives it,
and he escapes to Switzerland with Catherine. But now Catherine's pregnant. Isn't that wonderful? She's pregnant. And they escape up into the mountains and they're gonna be happy, and they're gonna be drinking wine and they dance, they both like to dance with each other. There's scenes of them dancing, which was boring, but I liked it, because they were happy. You think he ends it there? No! He writes another ending. She dies, dad! I mean, the world's hard enough as it is, guys. It's fucking hard enough as it is. Can't somebody say, "Hey, let's be positive? Let's have a good ending to the story?"
Dolores: Pat, you owe us an apology.
Pat: Mom, I...for what, I can't apologize. I'm not gonna apologize for this. You know what I will do? I will apologize on behalf of Ernest Hemingway, because that's who's to blame here.
Pat Sr.: Yeah, have Ernest Hemingway call us and apologize to us, too.

"So yeah, I snapped. I almost beat him to death. But then I get fucking chastised for it?"

Pat: You okay?
Ronnie: I'm not okay. Don't tell anybody. Listen to me. I feel like I'm getting crushed and...
Pat: Crushed by what?
Ronnie: Everything. The family, the baby, the job, the fucking dicks at work. And it's like, you know, like I'm trying to do this, you know, and...and...and then I'm like...suffocating.
Pat: Holy shit.
Ronnie: You can't be happy all the time.
Pat: Who told you you can't be happy?
Ronnie: It's alright. You just do your best, you have no choice.
Pat: That's not true at all.
Ronnie: You just can't.
Pat: Ronnie, Ronnie, Ronnie!

Veronica: I can play music for the baby in any room.
Pat: Can you play "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica?

"You felt it, I felt it, don't lie. We're not liars like they are."

"Go back to sleep. The party's over. Show's over."

"You may not have experienced the shit that I did. But you loved hearing about it, didn't you? You are afraid to be alive, you're afraid to live. You're a hypocrite. You're a conformist. You're a liar. I opened up to you and you judged me."

"Look, sometimes it's okay with girls like this, they wanna have fun and sometimes it's not because they got a broken wing, and they're hurt, and they're an easy target. And in this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my friend.  And you gotta make sure it gets mended. And you're gettin' in the way of that right now, okay? Because she's sensitive and she's smart, she's artistic. This is a great girl and you gotta be respectful of that."

"Let me ask you something. Do you call him when you're lonely?  That encourages him, Tiffany. You shouldn't do it."

Ronnie:  And then when I'm angry, which is a lot these days, I go to the garage. Metallica. Megadeth. I start fucking smashing shit.
Pat:  You gotta get your marriage together.
Ronnie:  I start breaking shit, and I hurt my hand. And I...
Pat:  Ronnie, that's fucked up.
Ronnie:  Yeah, but it makes me feel better. It's like my therapy, you know?

Tiffany: Yes. Do you feel that? That's emotion.
Pat: I don't feel anything.

"I'm not gonna fight. I'm not gonna fight."

"She's fucking nuts! When you started spending time with her, it all fell apart. This is the fucking reason right here."

"Let me tell you, I know you don't wanna listen to your father, I didn't listen to mine and I'm telling you, you gotta pay attention to the signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back. I'm telling you, it's a sin if you don't reach back, and it'll haunt you for the rest of your days like a curse. You're facing a big challenge in your life right now, at this very moment, right here. That girl loves you, she really really loves you. And I don't know if Nikki ever did, but she sure as hell doesn't love you right now. And I'm telling you, don't fuck this up."

Mad Men

"In my heart, I'm on the verge of throwing you in front of a cab."

"Saturday night in the suburbs — that's when you really want to blow your brains out."

"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink, because it's what men do."

"Look, I want to tell you something, because you're very dear to me and I hope you understand it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I've ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides."

"Now that I can finally understand you, I am less impressed with what you have to say."

"What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons."

"I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been."

"I don't wanna make a career out of being there so you can kick me when you fail."

"If I'm going to die, I want to die in Manhattan."

"You're not a good man. You never were. Even before we were married — and you know what I'm talking about."

Betty: Say what you always say.
Don: Everything's gonna be okay.

"When you don't have any power, you have to delay things."

"Sometimes when people get what they want, they realize how limited their dreams were."

"I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent."

Peggy: Are there others like you?
Michael: I don't know. I haven't been able to find any.

"My mother raised me to be admired."

"One day, you're there. And then, all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went, if it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize: it's just gone."

"Nostalgia: it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship; it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel; it's called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels: around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved. "

"When God closes a door, he opens a dress."


"You need three ingredients for a cocktail. Vodka and Mountain Dew is an emergency."

"I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean I guess."

"You want to be taken seriously. Stop dressing like a little girl."

"Remember...you're not dying for me. Because I never liked you."

Don Draper: It's your job. I give you money, you give me ideas.
Peggy Olson: And you never say thank you.
Don Draper: That's what the money is for!

"You're a whore."

"As far as I’m concerned, as long as men look at me that way, I’m earning my keep."

“I'm not a solution to your problem. I'm another problem.”

"This isn't China. There's no money in virginity."

"You don't cover for me. You manage people's expectations."

"Make it short, but significant."

"You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are."

"You had no right to fill a man like that with ambition."

"You wanna be somebody's discovery, not somebody's wife."

Greg Harris: Joannie, I don’t want to have a fight right now.
Joan Harris: Then stop talking.

"Don't fool yourself. This is some very dirty business."

Michael: I feel bad for you.
Don: I don't think about you at all.

"Yeah, and if I had met her first I would've known not to throw it away."

"Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK."

"I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk."

"He has a place in South Hampton. I'm not saying that I've seen it, but it's beautiful."

"You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

"So we're supposed to believe that people are living one way and secretly thinking the exact opposite? That's ridiculous."

"And no one will tell you this, but you can’t be a man. Don’t even try. Be a woman. Powerful business when done correctly. Do you understand what I’m saying, dear?"

"Only boring people are bored."

"You want to feel shitty right up until the point where I take your dress off."