George R.R. Martin Quotes
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601. “Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

— George R.R. Martin

602. “It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.”

— George R.R. Martin

603. “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.”

— George R.R. Martin

604. “He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”

— George R.R. Martin

605. “Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H’ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.”

— George R.R. Martin

606. “A sweet face oft hides a sinner’s heart.”

— George R.R. Martin

607. “What would a Frey know of honor? – Sir Davos Seaworth.”

— George R.R. Martin

608. “Chaos is a ladder.”

— George R.R. Martin

609. “Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I’ll honor you again.”

— George R.R. Martin

610. “I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.”

— George R.R. Martin

611. “An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child’s riddle?”

— George R.R. Martin

612. “Politicians were mostly people who’d had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.”

— George R.R. Martin

613. “He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.”

— George R.R. Martin

614. “If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?”

— George R.R. Martin

615. “Generally speaking, I’m much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.”

— George R.R. Martin

616. “I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.”

— George R.R. Martin

617. “Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.”

— George R.R. Martin

618. “The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.”

— George R.R. Martin

619. “When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.”

— George R.R. Martin

620. “All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”

— George R.R. Martin

621. “Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I’m a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.”

— George R.R. Martin

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622. “Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven’t seen you.”

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623. “When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.”

— George R.R. Martin

624. “I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?”

— George R.R. Martin

625. “Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.”

— George R.R. Martin

626. “Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.”

— George R.R. Martin

627. “You lie. Worse, you lie poorly.”

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628. “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

629. “There are things to be learned even from the dead.”

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630. “Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.”

— George R.R. Martin

631. “Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn’t start with Mount Everest. So if you’re starting fantasy, don’t start with a nine-book series.”

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632. “Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that’s too cruel.”

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633. “You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn’t the end and there’s something more, but I can’t convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.”

— George R.R. Martin

634. “Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.”

— George R.R. Martin

635. “Tomorrow’s trials concerned her more than yesterday’s triumphs.”

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636. “Once, I cut off a man’s head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.”

— George R.R. Martin

637. “There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.”

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638. “There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton’s face, rage and joy looked much the same.”

— George R.R. Martin

639. “A crown should not sit easy on the head.”

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640. “Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.”

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641. “Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.”

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642. “The only game. The game of thrones.”

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643. “Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.”

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644. “They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.”

— George R.R. Martin

645. “And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”

— George R.R. Martin

646. “The air smelled of paper and dust and years.”

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647. “A man could not always be where he belonged, though.”

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648. “When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?”

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649. “Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.”

— George R.R. Martin

650. “I’ve been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I’d write another book.”

— George R.R. Martin

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