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Quotes by George R.R. Martin

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

George R.R. Martin

Dragons are fire made flesh.

George R.R. Martin

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is Gods and Gods alone.

George R.R. Martin

What fire joins none man can put aside,

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Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

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The fire that burns against the cold.

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Ice can kill as dead as fire.

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Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

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Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. Its just a stupid dream.

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Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

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Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

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Dying is not dead.

George R.R. Martin

Begging for help never gets you any.

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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and Ill sleep more easily by night.

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Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

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Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.

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Even a hedge knight has his honor.

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Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

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Sellswords put gold before honor.

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Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.

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