Quotes by George R.R. Martin

It is hard to die unmourned.

All men must die. We are but deaths instruments, not death himself.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. Were all the heroes of our own stories.

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggars choice.

They laughed at him, but they didnt know, they didnt know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday hed see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. Hed like that. Hed know her when he saw her. Hed know just what to say.

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.

My uncle always said that it was the sword in a mans hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He’s been taken by the Starks and we’ve lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king.The dwarf smiled crookedly. “All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

Politicians were mostly people whod had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, dont you see? Dont you SEE?

Were all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.