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."