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Little cats who howl too loud get drowned in the canals," warned the fair-haired bravo. "Not if they have claws. -- George R R Martin
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
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him. -- George R R Martin
The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done. -- George R R Martin
Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy) -- George R R Martin
It's not Torrhen's Square I mean to take. - Theon Greyjoy -- George R R Martin
And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy's loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I shold have died with him. -- George R R Martin
But Theon Greyjoy found himself wondering why any man would climb the snow-slick steps to the battlements in the black of night just to take a piss. -- George R R Martin
All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colors. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear. -- George R R Martin
Necklace. The parchment curled, blackened, and took flame. Theon was aghast. "Have you gone mad?" His father laid a stinging backhand across his cheek. "Mind your tongue. You are not in Winterfell now, and I am not Robb the Boy, that you should speak to me so. I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke, -- George R R Martin
It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy -- George R R Martin
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. -- George R R Martin
Thee'th not to be touched, the goat screamed, spraying spittle all over Zollo. Thee hath to be a maid, you foolth! Thee'th worth a bag of thapphireth! -- George R R Martin
Twilight deepened. The cloudless sky turned a deep purple, the color of an old bruise, then faded to black. -- George R R Martin
Sansa cried herself to sleep, Arya brooded silently all day long, and Eddard Stark dreamed of a frozen hell reserved for the Starks of Winterfell. -- George R R Martin
They had found two of his uncle's men in the wood, slain, but the corpses had risen in the chill of night. Jon's burnt fingers twitched as he remembered. He still saw the wight in his dreams, dead Othor with the burning blue eyes and the cold black hands, -- George R R Martin
He'd had a giant's strength too, -- George R R Martin
I left the next morning ... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder -- George R R Martin
Once a horse is broken to the saddle, any man can mount him", he said in a soft voice.. "Once a beast's been joined to a man, any skinchanger can slip inside of him and ride him. -- George R R Martin
Or do you mean to rule over a realm of seals and otters?"
She gave a rueful laugh. "Otters might be easier to rule than men, I grant you. And seals are smarter. -- George R R Martin
Wolves and women wed for life. -- George R R Martin
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things. -- George R R Martin
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze. "Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words. -- George R R Martin
Any man who steps between a father and his vengeance asks for death. -- George R R Martin
When cowards hide behind great walls, it is they who are defeated, Khaleesi," Ko Jhogo said. Her other bloodriders concurred. "Blood of my blood," said Rakharo, "when cowards hide and burn the food and fodder, great khals must seek for braver foes. This is known. -- George R R Martin
Lord Rodrik Harlaw was neither fat nor slim; neither tall nor short; neither ugly nor handsome. His hair was brown, as were his eyes, though the short, neat beard he favored had gone grey. All in all, he was an ordinary man, distinguished only by his love of written words. -- George R R Martin
Some would fight for any cause, some for none at all. -- George R R Martin
his snores sounded like ducks mating. -- George R R Martin
Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen. -- George R R Martin
Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well - soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters. -- George R R Martin
Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had ... I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. -- George R R Martin
I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.' He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. 'I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. -- George R R Martin
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. -- George R R Martin
Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion - and yet loves so much he craves for more. -- George R R Martin
One blast?" On his shoulder, his raven sat fluffed and silent, looking miserable. "One, my lord," Jon agreed. "Brothers returning." Mormont -- George R R Martin
I wait with sullen resignation, said Tuf, unmoving. -- George R R Martin
Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei -- George R R Martin
The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits. -- George R R Martin
Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are. -- George R R Martin
This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery. -- George R R Martin
His lips look like two worms fucking. -- George R R Martin
Well, my legs may be too small for my body, but my head is too large, although I prefer to think it is just large enough for my mind. I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. -- George R R Martin
Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old. -- George R R Martin
Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. -- George R R Martin
Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it? -- George R R Martin
In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'. -- George R R Martin
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? -- George R R Martin
Some things are best left unsaid, sweetling."
"Even when we are alone?"
"*Especially* when we are alone. -- George R R Martin
In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya. -- George R R Martin
His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh -- George R R Martin
His cloak was Lannister crimson, but his surcoat showed the ten purple mullets of his own House arrayed upon a yellow field. -- George R R Martin
Arya did not know any Many-Faced God, but if he answered prayers, he might be the god she sought. -- George R R Martin
There's part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you're trying to drive nails with your shoe. -- George R R Martin
If the fire was too hot, you could hardly keep the pudding from scorching by tossing a handful of raisins in the pot. -- George R R Martin
She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. -- George R R Martin
Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind. -- George R R Martin
There was very little that Jaime took seriously. Tyrion knew that about his brother, and forgave it. During all the terrible long years of his childhood, only Jaime had ever shown him the smallest measure of affection or respect, and for that Tyrion was willing to forgive him most anything. -- George R R Martin
Friend or foe, the crows care not. -- George R R Martin
Lady Stark was there beside his bed. She had been there, day and night, for close on a fortnight. Not for a moment had she left Bran's side. She had her meals brought to her there, and chamber pots as well, and a small hard bed to sleep on, though it was said she had scarcely slept at all. -- George R R Martin
I am a knight - " "So I've noted. Tell me - did Cersei have you knighted before or after she took you into her bed?" The flicker in Lancel's green eyes was all the admission Tyrion needed. So Varys told it true. Well, no one can ever claim that my sister does not love her family. -- George R R Martin
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall. -- George R R Martin
Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead. -- George R R Martin
Joffrey is in my prayers as well," said Margaery. "I loved him dearly, though I never had the chance to know him." Liar, the queen thought. If you had loved him even for an instant, you would not have been in such unseemly haste to wed his brother. His crown was all you ever wanted. For -- George R R Martin
You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers. -- George R R Martin
You Starks are hard to kill," Jon agreed. -- George R R Martin
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. -- George R R Martin
I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously. I am a voracious consumer of books, tapes, holoplays, fictions and drama and histories of all sorts. I have experimented with dreamdust. -- George R R Martin
Some men had faces that cried out for a beard. Ser Clayton's face cried out for an axe between the eyes. -- George R R Martin
When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground. -- George R R Martin
oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows) -- George R R Martin
A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf. -- George R R Martin
Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us. -- George R R Martin
What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst. Elsewise the good would live forever. -- George R R Martin
She could feel the hole inside her where her heart had been. -- George R R Martin
You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath -- George R R Martin
And he spoke very slowly, in a voice that was also like fog, that drifted and curled and hid things, and you knew that there were mysteries there and things brooding just out of sight and far-off lights that you would never reach. -- George R R Martin
The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence. -- George R R Martin
The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune. -- George R R Martin
If I faint, pull me out. No Lannister has ever drowned in his bath and I don't mean to be the first." "Why should I care how you die?" "You swore a solemn vow. -- George R R Martin
Many a voyager has been lost here, poleboats and pirates and great river galleys too. They wander forlorn through the mists, searching for a sun they cannot find until madness or hunger claim their lives. There are restless spirits in the air here and tormented souls below the water. -- George R R Martin
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them. -- George R R Martin
If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. -- George R R Martin
Ser Alliser Thorne was the only man at table who did not so much as crack a smile. "Lannister mocks us." "Only you, Ser Alliser," Tyrion said. This time the laughter round the table had a nervous, uncertain quality to it. -- George R R Martin
It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him. -- George R R Martin
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness. -- George R R Martin
When you're done drinking you'll tickle the innkeep to see where he keeps his gold. The way you always do. -- George R R Martin
I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever. -- George R R Martin
Yes, she said, and from that moment she was a novice in the House of Black and White. -- George R R Martin
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. -- George R R Martin
Men are men ... Dragons are dragons. -- George R R Martin
Do you think I do not know that? Oberyn is with me every time I close my eyes. Doran Martell -- George R R Martin
I see you had no taste for the wine I sent you."
"Such sudden generosity seemed somewhat suspect."
"I can have your head off anytime I want. Why should I need to poison you?"
"Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off. -- George R R Martin
I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My -- George R R Martin
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. -- George R R Martin
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. -- George R R Martin
Finally he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him. -- George R R Martin
There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La. -- George R R Martin
Balon is dead! The king is dead! Yet a king will come again! For what is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger! A king will rise! -- George R R Martin
M'lord," Janos Slynt reminded him. "You'll address me-"
"I'll go, my lord. But you are making a mistake, my lord. You are sending the wrong man, my lord. Just the sight of me is going to anger Mance ... -- George R R Martin
This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings. -- George R R Martin
Gold," said Jaime. "You do like gold?" Urswyck studied him through reddened eyes. "It has its uses, I do confess. -- George R R Martin
A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men. -- George R R Martin
We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes. -- George R R Martin
The living have no place at the feasts of the dead. -- George R R Martin
If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had. -- George R R Martin
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. -- George R R Martin
I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one. -- George R R Martin
Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth. -- George R R Martin
Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters ... and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white. -- George R R Martin
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. -- George R R Martin
Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy. -- George R R Martin
Love can make a fool of any man. -- George R R Martin
Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear -- George R R Martin
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood. -- George R R Martin
A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright. -- George R R Martin
The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat. -- George R R Martin
Bran knew that men slept on top of women when they shared a bed. Sleeping under Lord Manderly would be like sleeping under a fallen horse, he imagined. -- George R R Martin
Hodor?"
"Hodor. -- George R R Martin
If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them. -- George R R Martin
Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride? -- George R R Martin
Even a hedge knight has his honor. -- George R R Martin
The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler. -- George R R Martin
When nine-and-ninety hostages had shuffled by them to pass beneath the Wall, Tormund Giantsbane produced the last one. My son Dryn. You'll see he's well taken care of, crow, or I'll cook your black liver up and eat it. -- George R R Martin
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait. -- George R R Martin
His hand shone dully in its light. No good for throttling eunuchs, but heavy enough to smash that slimy smile into a fine red ruin. -- George R R Martin
I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it. And -- George R R Martin
Lady, I have never been a hero, no Ryam Redwyne or Barristan the Bold. I've won no tourneys, no renown in war ... but I was a knight once, and you have helped me remember what that meant. My life is a poor thing, but it is yours. -- George R R Martin
They have been with you every day, my lord. Sansa prays quietly, but Arya ... " He hesitated. "She has not said a word since they brought you back. She is a fierce little thing, my lord. I have never seen such anger in a girl. -- George R R Martin
Aye," she said, "and hands strong enough to twist a man's head off his shoulders, if he takes a mind to. -- George R R Martin
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. -- George R R Martin
All sins may be forgiven, but crimes must still be punished. -- George R R Martin
Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. -- George R R Martin
Don't call me Lord Snow."
The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. "Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore. -- George R R Martin
You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted. -- George R R Martin
We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy. -- George R R Martin
An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two men-at-arms pissing in a ditch turned and sprayed each other. -- George R R Martin
Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes.
- Jon Snow -- George R R Martin
Terror filled her. She could not go back and she was afraid to stay here, but how could she go on? - Dany -- George R R Martin
I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time. -- George R R Martin
The mystery knight prevails against all challengers, and wonder dances in his wake. -- George R R Martin
If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dorne, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins. -- George R R Martin
Beware," the woman in the red lacquer mask said. "Of whom?" "Of all. They shall come day and night to see the wonder that has been born again into the world, and when they see they shall lust. For dragons are fire made flesh, and fire is power. -- George R R Martin
Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. - Arianne -- George R R Martin
I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry.
"You don't even know what a brothel is."
"I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls. -- George R R Martin
Jaime smiled. "I hope you're not thinking of taking the black on us, sweet brother."
Tyrion laughed. "What, me, celibate? The whores would go begging from Dorne to Casterly Rock. No, I just want to stand on top of the Wall and piss off the edge of the world. -- George R R Martin
No matter where he went in this wide world, his fears went with him. -- George R R Martin
Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels. -- George R R Martin
He was a Lannister of Casterly Rock, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard; no sellsword would make him scream.
Sunlight ran silver along the edge of the arakh as it came shivering down, almost too fast to see. And Jaime screamed. -- George R R Martin
Thoros," Gendry said as they walked past the kennels, "is he the -- George R R Martin
It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks. -- George R R Martin
Rage twisted his features. He would hurt her now, and badly, she knew that. Crack. The whip made a sound like thunder. The coil took Viserys around the throat and yanked him backward. He went sprawling in the grass, stunned and choking. -- George R R Martin
Sour Billy had left his horse tied up outside a grog shop. He mounted it, and told the girl to walk along beside him. They -- George R R Martin
A Stone Crow's axe is always sharp, and Shagga's axes are sharpest of all. 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." "Is that why you never brush yours?" The Stone Crows roared and stamped their feet, Shagga hooting loudest of all. -- George R R Martin
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. -- George R R Martin
You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly ... unless you open your eye. - Jojen -- George R R Martin
Ser Gregor, it went, Dunsen, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei. She ended it with valar morghulis, -- George R R Martin
As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you. -- George R R Martin
Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that. -- George R R Martin
The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.
- Lord Commander Mormont -- George R R Martin
He's not afraid of anyone, m'lord."
"He should be. Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit. -- George R R Martin
Some we call players and some we call prizes, but when the pain comes and the game of mind begins, we are all the same, all naked and alone without riches or health or status, armed with only the strength that lies within us. Win or lose, live or die, it is up to us and us alone. -- George R R Martin
There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing. -- George R R Martin
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations. -- George R R Martin
Even now, it was hard for her to believe that he was truly gone. Some nights she would wake in darkness, half-asleep, and for an instant expect to find him there beside her. -- George R R Martin
I'd sooner drink a pint of piss than take the word of any Frey. -- George R R Martin
The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin, -- George R R Martin
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon) -- George R R Martin
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys) -- George R R Martin
Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you hard. -- George R R Martin
If you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn. -- George R R Martin
It's being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it's like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It's not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times. -- George R R Martin
Wash out her private parts with lye and throw her in a dungeon, Tarly commanded. -- George R R Martin
Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people. -- George R R Martin
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world. - Oberyn -- George R R Martin
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it.
I will take that as high praise. -- George R R Martin
None taken, Ser Jaremy. My father is very fond of spiked heads, especially those of people who have annoyed him in some fashion. And a face as noble as yours, well, no doubt he saw you decorating the city wall above King's Gate. I think you would have looked very striking up there. -- George R R Martin
[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you."
[Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice."
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Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. -- George R R Martin
I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. -- George R R Martin
A bite." She touched the hilt of her sword, the sword that he had given her. Oathkeeper. "My lord, you gave me a quest. -- George R R Martin
He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule. -- George R R Martin
For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage. -- George R R Martin
I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour. -- George R R Martin
Coins from half a hundred distant cities, silver and gold, copper and bronze, square coins and round coins, triangles and rings and bits of bone -- George R R Martin
He should never have let himself be drawn into this, but the singer said that love can make a fool of any man. -- George R R Martin
Beneath your skin are muscles. Learn to use them. It is your face. Your cheeks, your lips, your ears. Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls. A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. Learn to rule your face. -- George R R Martin
Shall I ask again?" wondered Xaro. "No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men's hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals." A single tear ran slowly down his pale white cheek. -- George R R Martin
Racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts. -- George R R Martin
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all. -- George R R Martin
Ser Gregor the Mountain," she said softly. "Dunsen, Raff the Sweetling, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, Queen Cersei." It made her feel queer to leave out Polliver and the Tickler. And Joffrey too. -- George R R Martin
A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there, and a king dies. -- George R R Martin
My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had."
"If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick -- George R R Martin
Be strong, boy. The gods are cruel. -- George R R Martin
Oak and iron, guard me well, or else I'm dead, and doomed to hell. -- George R R Martin
Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He's running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dullest family in the world. -- George R R Martin
I'm done now, then. I've already kicked one prince in the mouth, I don't mean to keep another waiting. -- George R R Martin
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something. -- George R R Martin
His passion was a tragedy for all of us, but it was real, and pure, and nothing to be made mock of. -- George R R Martin
Yes, all Lannisters are lions, and when a Tyrell breaks wind it smells just like a rose. -- George R R Martin
If I pray nicely, will the Father give me a new hand?
No. But the Warrior will give you courage, the Smith will lend you strength, and the Crone will give you wisdom.
It's a hand I need. -- George R R Martin
The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods. -- George R R Martin
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie. -- George R R Martin
How time seemed to blur and slow and even stop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even your body. -- George R R Martin
I'm not a lady, Arya wanted to tell her, I'm a wolf. -- George R R Martin
The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it. -- George R R Martin
Words are wind, and men will lie to get their way, as any maid could tell you. -- George R R Martin
I'm short not blind -- George R R Martin
He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night. -- George R R Martin
Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them. -- George R R Martin
Power resides only where men believe it resides. [ ... ] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. -- George R R Martin
Some men think because they're afraid to do. -- George R R Martin
R'hllor, come to us in our darkness, -- George R R Martin
R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is dark and full of terrors. -- George R R Martin
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things. -- George R R Martin
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky. -- George R R Martin
Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man. -- George R R Martin
There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk. -- George R R Martin
Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again. -- George R R Martin
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. -- George R R Martin
Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths. -- George R R Martin
Remind me to tell the High Septon," said Tyrion. "If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious." He -- George R R Martin
Why is that so hard? They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? He -- George R R Martin
They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis -- George R R Martin
Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night. -- George R R Martin
You should think less about the future and more about the pleasures at hand. -- George R R Martin
Even dreams cannot live up here. -- George R R Martin
Have you noticed that the rain stopped the instant I had a roof above me? It will start again now that I'm back out. Gods and dogs alike delight to piss on me. - Dolorous Edd -- George R R Martin
It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish. -- George R R Martin
Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies. -- George R R Martin
Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. As the dead men reached the top of the Wall he sent them down to die again. -- George R R Martin
Bronn said. He was near a shadow himself; bone thin and bone hard, with black eyes and black hair and a stubble of beard. -- George R R Martin
If the lamb sees the knife, she panics. Her panic seeps into her meat, darkens it, fouls the flavor. -- George R R Martin
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. -- George R R Martin
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. -- George R R Martin
Come at once. Help me. Save me. I need you as I have never needed you before. I love you, I love you, I love you. Come at once-Cersei Lannister -- George R R Martin
I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead. -- George R R Martin
The Night's Watch is thousands of years old," he said, "but I'll wager Lord Snow's the first brother ever honored for burning down the Lord Commander's Tower. -- George R R Martin
A man must have some name, is that not so? Biter cannot speak and Biter cannot write, yet his teeth are very sharp, so a man calls him Biter and he smiles. Are you charmed?" Arya -- George R R Martin
It is only an island of light surrounded by a vastly greater area of greyness and that fades ultimately into the black of ignorance. -- George R R Martin
I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt. -- George R R Martin
This is a time for beasts, Jaime reflected, for lions and wolves and angry dogs, for ravens and carrion crows. -- George R R Martin
He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares. -- George R R Martin
Once or twice he pinched his arm with his fingers, really hard, but the only thing that did was make his arm hurt. -- George R R Martin
We do not choose our destinies. -- George R R Martin
A small victory, he thought, but sweet. -- George R R Martin
The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. Outside the greater rivers flowed, the Red Fork and the Tumblestone, and they would flow forever, but not so the rivers in her father's hand. Too soon that current would grow still. -- George R R Martin
My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff. -- George R R Martin
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. -- George R R Martin
The world's nothing but a mean bully, that's a fact. Even when you've big misfortunes threatening to drop on your head, small ones still take every chance to prick your toes. -- George R R Martin
Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued. -- George R R Martin
The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either. -- George R R Martin
A king who does not protect his people is no king at all. -- George R R Martin
Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies. -- George R R Martin
Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm. -- George R R Martin
Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son ... '
Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight. -- George R R Martin
He will not be three forever. And winter is coming. -- George R R Martin
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important. -- George R R Martin
No one looked at him. No one spoke to him. No one paid him any mind. He was surrounded by men sworn to House Lannister, a vast host twenty thousand strong, and yet he was alone. -- George R R Martin
Eddard Stark not in the least. Is there a reason for this -- George R R Martin
This is so," Illyrio agreed, "but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. More wine? -- George R R Martin
We tremble on the cusp of half-remembered prophecies, of wonders and terrors that no man now living could hope to comprehend -- George R R Martin
the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. -- George R R Martin
Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner. - Tyrion -- George R R Martin
You are an honest and honorable man ... Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. -- George R R Martin
This will be my grand adventure." "Men die on grand adventures. -- George R R Martin
Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible, and red. -- George R R Martin
Seventeen, and beautiful, and already a legend. Half the girls in the Seven Kingdom want to bed him, and all the boys want to be him. -- George R R Martin
Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. -- George R R Martin
It was almost enough to put a man off whoring. -- George R R Martin
And tell Ser Donnel to add a weathervane to his shield. -- George R R Martin
If ... if certain things should come to pass, I will send word to each of you. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. -- George R R Martin
Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit -- George R R Martin
When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come, -- George R R Martin
Promise me, Ned, she had whispered. -- George R R Martin
No godless man may sit the Seastone Chair! -- George R R Martin
The outriders came on them an hour from the Green Fork, as the wayn was slogging down a muddy road. -- George R R Martin
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. -- George R R Martin
Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. Words are wind, and the wind is always blowing at the Wall. -- George R R Martin
This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you. -- George R R Martin
As hard as birth can be, Brienne, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being torn apart. Would that there were five of me, one for each child, so I might keep them all safe. - Lady Catelyn -- George R R Martin
Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but ... you were well away. Why come back?"
A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said. -- George R R Martin
You said the words," Pyp reminded him. "Now my watch begins, you said it. It shall not end until my death." "I shall live and die at my post," Grenn added, nodding. -- George R R Martin
You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions, or dragons, or eagles. -- George R R Martin
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ... -- George R R Martin
There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers. -- George R R Martin
They are boys drunk on song and story, and like all boys, they think themselves immortal. -- George R R Martin
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem ... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes. -- George R R Martin
Fingers. They had served them to Littlefinger, -- George R R Martin
Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things. -- George R R Martin
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me
- Maester Cressen -- George R R Martin
Gain or loss. Living and dying. I have told you, Cyrain, they cannot be separated. -- George R R Martin
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings. -- George R R Martin
Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor. -- George R R Martin
Place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in his solar, -- George R R Martin
Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers. -- George R R Martin
What ... what game?" "The only game. The game of thrones. -- George R R Martin
No one gets to abuse the people of Westeros but me! -- George R R Martin
Mantlets. "Here come our breakfast arrows," Pyp announced -- George R R Martin
People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am. -- George R R Martin
We shall have no king but from the kingmoot. -- George R R Martin
My mother taught me long ago that only madmen fight wars they cannot win. -- George R R Martin
The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry. -- George R R Martin
If this was power, why did it taste like tedium? -- George R R Martin
Shit and piss and trash were thrown from windows to the distant street until rain came to wash them away, and like plants in rich soil, the unstable, unreliable buildings rose, driven by the deep human desire to be the one least shat upon. -- George R R Martin
The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear. -- George R R Martin
Honor," she said. "The point is honor. -- George R R Martin
You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men. -- George R R Martin
When I was a boy," Tyrion replied, "my wet nurse told me that one day, if men were good, the gods would give the world a summer without ending. Perhaps we've been better than we thought, and the Great Summer is finally at hand." He grinned. The -- George R R Martin
Catelyn had not eaten today. Perhaps that had been unwise. She told herself that there had been no time, but the truth was that food had lost its savor in a world without Ned. 'When they took his head off, they killed me too. -- George R R Martin
The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'In this light she could almost be a beauty', he thought. 'In this light she could almost be a knight'. -- George R R Martin
A sword so fine must bear a name. It would please me if you would call this one Oathkeeper. -- George R R Martin
Cersei always resented being excluded from power on account of her sex. -- George R R Martin
A man can make do with seven fingers. Seven is a sacred number. -- George R R Martin
Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but does he ever truly see me as his queen? -- George R R Martin
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep. -- George R R Martin
I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off. -- George R R Martin
That was when the dwarf turned to the eunuch and said, "I've killed my father," in the same tone a man might use to say, "I've stubbed my toe. -- George R R Martin
Cersei will send men after you, I have no doubt. You might do well to take another name." "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar. -- George R R Martin
Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son ... -- George R R Martin
No, thought the dwarf, he plays the game of thrones, and you and Griff and Duck are only pieces, to be moved where he will and sacrificed at need, just as he sacrificed Viserys. -- George R R Martin
One naked girl with a mud up to her knees could not seem to take her eyes off Tyrion. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face and stuck his tongue out and the girl began to cry -- George R R Martin
The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends. -- George R R Martin
Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother. -- George R R Martin
Then I am not a dwarf. My father will rejoice to hear it. -- George R R Martin
A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon. -- George R R Martin
I can't," I said. "I've got to study." "We've all got to study," Zara said. "But it's Christmas. The Drome will be all decorated and everybody will be there." "Exactly, which means the light rail will be packed and security will take forever. -- George R R Martin
I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.' -- George R R Martin
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. -- George R R Martin
Ser Gerold Hightower had begun his history, and Ser Barristan Selmy had continued it, but the rest Jaime Lannister would need to write for himself. He could write whatever he chose, henceforth.
Whatever he chose ... -- George R R Martin
Heed the wisdom of those who love you best. -- George R R Martin
When you accept a lord's meat and mead, all you do reflects on him. Always do more than he expects of you, never less. Never flinch at any task or hardship. And above all, never shame the lord you serve. -- George R R Martin
Still, I take your point. I have a deal to learn about being a dwarf. Perhaps you will be good enough to teach me, in between the jousting and the pig-riding. -- George R R Martin
I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I'd like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me. -- George R R Martin
As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted," Tyrion began, "there is a serious flaw in Littlefinger's fable. Whatever you may believe of me, Lady Stark, I promise you this - I never bet against my family. -- George R R Martin
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
He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all. -- George R R Martin
Treason is a noxious weed," Pycelle declared solemnly. "It must be torn up, root and stem and seed, lest new traitors sprout from every roadside. -- George R R Martin
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I'm always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names. -- George R R Martin
Love didn't just happen to us. We built it slowly over the years, stone by stone. For you, for your brothers and sisters, and for all of us. It's not as exciting as secret passion in the woods, but it is stronger. It lasts longer. -- George R R Martin
Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. -- George R R Martin
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor. -- George R R Martin
Your Grace," he said, when he and Cersei were alone, "I was wondering. Are you drunk, or merely stupid? -- George R R Martin
Even hungry dogs know better than to bite the hand that feeds them, -- George R R Martin
Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow. A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd. From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. ... -- George R R Martin
In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness. -- George R R Martin
Shadows." The world seemed darker when he said it.
"Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark. -- George R R Martin
Everything's better with some wine in the belly. -- George R R Martin
Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
save our sons from war, we pray,
stay the swords and stay the arrows,
let them know a better day,
Gentle Mother, strength of women,
help our daughters through this fray,
soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
teach us all a kinder way. -- George R R Martin
Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew. -- George R R Martin
What sort of moths eat chainmail? -- George R R Martin
I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.
(Petyr Baelish to Sansa Stark) -- George R R Martin
Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he'd made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he'd paid to keep them. -- George R R Martin
He took another sip of ale, and began talking lovingly of breads and pies and tarts, all the things he loved. Arya rolled her eyes. -- George R R Martin
Firelight gleamed golden in the stiff whiskers that framed Lord Tywin's face. A vein pulsed in his neck, but he did not speak. And did not speak. And did not speak. -- George R R Martin
Better to die a knight than live like that. -- George R R Martin
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation. -- George R R Martin
Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them. -- George R R Martin
A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow with him wherever he goes. -- George R R Martin
His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted. -- George R R Martin
Tyrion was exceedingly courteous; he offered his sister the choice portions of every dish, and made certain he ate only what she did. Not that he truly thought she'd poison him, but it never hurt to be careful. -- George R R Martin
You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?"
"Yes"
"How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here. -- George R R Martin
My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again. -- George R R Martin
It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around. -- George R R Martin
I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys) -- George R R Martin
All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs. -- George R R Martin
Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently. -- George R R Martin
I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark -- George R R Martin
Music to my ears." Though not a tune I'm fond of. -- George R R Martin
Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. "You are too skinny for him," Jhiqui was saying. "You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known." Irri bristled back. "It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows. -- George R R Martin
Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm ... -- George R R Martin
Yet, if he would not lie, what could he write but truth? -- George R R Martin
What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth -- George R R Martin
Beneath the gold, the bitter steel. -- George R R Martin
To Queen her is to kill her. -- George R R Martin
If there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her. It was the living men she feared. -- George R R Martin
She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I'm the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate. -- George R R Martin
Harrenhal must be held, though, and Baelor Butthole here is the man that Cersei chose to hold it. -- George R R Martin
I am the ghost in Harrenhal. -- George R R Martin
Your wolves have more wit than your maester," the wildling woman said. "They know truths the grey man has forgotten." The way she said it made him shiver, and when he asked what the comet meant, she answered, "Blood and fire, boy, and nothing sweet. -- George R R Martin
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. -- George R R Martin
The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises' Gunthor said.
'Half a man I may be' Tyrion said. 'Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hide behind rocks and shiver with fear as the knights of the Vale ride by? -- George R R Martin
There are ghosts everywhere. We carry them with us everywhere we go. -- George R R Martin
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable. -- George R R Martin
Pain's dark lord. My enemy, my lover. Again, yet again, wanting only an end to suffering, I rushed to his black embrace. Death took me, and the pain ended. -- George R R Martin
I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears. -- George R R Martin
Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.' ... 'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities. -- George R R Martin
He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber. -- George R R Martin
Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit. -- George R R Martin
My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit. -- George R R Martin
They had well-fed faces and laughter that was made cruel by its context the way a gem could be made ugly by being set in tin. -- George R R Martin
Another day done" - he would sigh - "and who knows what the morrow will bring us, eh, Dunk? -- George R R Martin
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. -- George R R Martin
Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall. -- George R R Martin
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
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. -- George R R Martin
A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up. -- George R R Martin
When the two men were ten yards apart, the Red Viper stopped and called out, "Have they told you who I am?"
Ser Gregor grunted through his breaths. "Some dead man. -- George R R Martin
He could hear Hodor singing "Hodor, hodor, hodor," quietly to himself. -- George R R Martin
Hodor, hush," said Bran. "Be quiet now. No more stupid hodoring. -- George R R Martin
Hodor," said Hodor. -- George R R Martin
Hodor looked at him innocently. "Hodor? -- George R R Martin
Hodor," said Hodor. "Hodor," Bran agreed. -- George R R Martin
Hodor squatted down beside the door, rocking back and forth on his haunches and muttering, "Hodor, hodor, hodor." Bran -- George R R Martin
Hoooodor," said Hodor, swaying. "Hooooooodor, hoooooodor, hoDOR, hoDOR, hoDOR." Sometimes he liked to do this, just saying his name different ways, over and over and over. -- George R R Martin
but then the shadow said "Hodor, -- George R R Martin
Hodor hodor hodor hodor," shouted Hodor, eyes wide. -- George R R Martin
And Hodor came lumbering in shouting Hodor! Hodor! Hodor! -- George R R Martin
Hodor twice as big, twice as strong, and half as clever. -- George R R Martin
Hodor, said Hodor. Maester -- George R R Martin
The bathhouse had been thick with the steam rising off the water and Jaime had come walking through that mist naked as his name day, looking half a corpse and half a god.He climbed into the tub with me, she remembered, blushing. -- George R R Martin
The pain was so huge he felt small and weak and helpless inside it, -- George R R Martin
I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self. -- George R R Martin
Groat and penny are the smallest coins, worth the least, and what's worse, they chose the names themselves. -- George R R Martin
Things are not always as they seemed, Much that may seem evil can be good. -- George R R Martin
I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent? -- George R R Martin
Love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear -- George R R Martin
The memory of her laughter warmed him on the long ride north. -- George R R Martin
Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and Mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it. -Arya Stark -- George R R Martin
Be certain," Catelyn told her son, "or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command. -- George R R Martin
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. -- George R R Martin
If you want to lead, learn how to follow. -- George R R Martin
I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. -- George R R Martin
Let him beg, it won't do him no good. -- George R R Martin
Beyond the Wall the monsters live, the giants and the ghouls, the stalking shadows and the dead that walk, but they cannot pass so long as the Wall stands strong and the men of the Night's Watch are true. So go to sleep Brandon, my baby boy, and dream sweet dreams. There are no monsters here. -- George R R Martin
This was something else: poison in the dark, a knife trust to the soul. -- George R R Martin
What's dead may never die. -- George R R Martin
It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her. -- George R R Martin
Whisper a word in the wrong ear and before you knew it you'd be short a head. -- George R R Martin
Who better to raise Prince Rhaegar's infant son than Prince Rhaegar's dear friend Jon Connington, once Lord of Griffin's Roost and Hand of the King? -- George R R Martin
Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack. -- George R R Martin
Bran tried to open his third eye, but he didn't know how. No matter how he wrinkled his forehead and poked at it, he couldn't see any different than he'd done before. -- George R R Martin
You are quite mad." The smoke had filled her eyes with tears. "If you were better born, I'd marry you. -- George R R Martin
Tyrion seated himself and took a sip of wine. If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow at him. I have seen dead men with more humor than your Ser Alliser. -- George R R Martin
But they were all dead now, even Arya, everyone but her half-brother, Jon. Some nights she heard talk of him, in the taverns and brothels of the Ragman's Harbor. The Black Bastard of the wall, one man had called him. Even Jon would never know Blind Beth, i bet. That made her sad. -- George R R Martin
You can match the queen coin for coin, I have no doubt, but she has a second purse that is quite inexhaustible. -- George R R Martin
So much for vows. Words are wind, -- George R R Martin
That's what they always ended up saying: "But I'm just sad." Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time. -- George R R Martin
Gold shall be their crowns and gold their shrouds. -- George R R Martin
He slept with a ghost beside him, a supernaturally beautiful ghost, the husk of a dead dream. He woke to her each morning. -- George R R Martin
Whites were bright as fresh-fallen snow, yellow shone like gold, reds turned to flame, but the shadows were so black they looked like holes in the world. -- George R R Martin
A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years. -- George R R Martin
Dany nibbled at an onion and reflected ruefully on the faithlessness of men. -- George R R Martin
For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. -- George R R Martin
If it were easy all men would do it. You must walk before you run. -- George R R Martin
I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones. -- George R R Martin
There are no men like me. There's only me -- George R R Martin
Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it. -- George R R Martin
I find I need less sleep as I grow older, and I am grown very old. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. -- George R R Martin
It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts. -- George R R Martin
We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.
Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. -- George R R Martin
The northern girl. Winterfell's daughter. We heard she killed the king with a spell, and afterward changed into a wolf with big leathery wings like a bat, and flew out a tower window. -- George R R Martin
Catelyn dreamt that Bran was whole again, that Arya and Sansa held hands, that Rickon was still a babe at her breast. Robb, crownless, played with a wooden sword, and when all were safe asleep, she found Ned in her bed, smiling -- George R R Martin
Such a man deserves a retinue to attend his needs in hell. -- George R R Martin
Do as you're told, sweetling, it won't be so bad. Wolves are supposed to be brave, aren't they? -- George R R Martin
Catelyn to her son. I have prepared a list of those we might wish to consider -- George R R Martin
The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle. -- George R R Martin
I hate your stupid stories." The old woman smiled at him toothlessly.
"My stories? No, my little lord, not mine. The stories are, before me and after me, before you too. -- George R R Martin
Forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. -- George R R Martin
My smile is my servant, he should come at my command. -- George R R Martin
Women do not forget. Women do not forgive. -- George R R Martin
I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business. -- George R R Martin
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die. -- George R R Martin
Be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening. -- George R R Martin
When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne? -- George R R Martin
Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born. -- George R R Martin
As the tongue returns to a space left by a missing tooth. -- George R R Martin
Underneath his steal and wool and boiled leather, Jaime Lannister was a tapestry of cuts and scabs and bruises. -- George R R Martin
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. -- George R R Martin
Children are a battle of a different sort ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce. -- George R R Martin
It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said. -- George R R Martin
The high and humble crowded into the sept together to pray. -- George R R Martin
I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF -- George R R Martin
This time the Imp meant to fight, and a city that fought could expect no mercy at all. -- George R R Martin
On her way where?"
"Wherever whores go. -- George R R Martin
Sometimes she felt as though her heart had turned to stone; -- George R R Martin
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs? -- George R R Martin
Come, drink with me," the fat man said. "A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say. -- George R R Martin
Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more. -- George R R Martin
One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong. But not today. It could not be today. -- George R R Martin
Lem glowered. Your lion friends ride into some village, take all the food and every coin they find, and call it foraging. the wolves as well, so why not us? no one robbed you, dog. You just been good and foraged. -- George R R Martin
Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck! -- George R R Martin
I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act. -- George R R Martin
I think I will try and sleep. Wake me if we're about to die. -- George R R Martin
The Night's Watch permitted the forest to come no closer than half a mile of the north face of the Wall. The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen. -- George R R Martin
Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes. -- George R R Martin
Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide him. He looks very like his father." Her husband's by-blows had his look as well, though at least Robert had the grace to keep them out of sight. -- George R R Martin
Could a man walk while he was sleeping? -- George R R Martin
After my name day feast, I'm going to raise a host and kill your brother myself. That's what I'll give you, Lady Sansa. Your brother's head."
A kind of madness took over her then, and she heard herself say, "Maybe my brother will give me your head. -- George R R Martin
I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion. -- George R R Martin
The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth. -- George R R Martin
Ten years a wold, and you land here and think to prince about the islands, but you know nothing and no one. Why should men fight and die for you?' 'I am their lawful prince,' Theon said stiffly. 'By the laws of the green lands, you might be. But we make our own laws here, or have you forgotten? -- George R R Martin
Joffrey is truly a little shit, -- George R R Martin
A maid has to be mistrustful in this world, or she will not be a maid for long. -- George R R Martin
Ser Rodrik groused. His opinion of singers was well known; music was a lovely thing for girls, but he could not comprehend why any healthy boy would fill his hand with a harp when he might have had a sword. -- George R R Martin
The best calumnies are spiced with truth. -- George R R Martin
Now pray excuse me, I need to hit someone very hard with a sword -Jon Snow -- George R R Martin
Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne -- George R R Martin
Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare. -- George R R Martin
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing. -- George R R Martin
Faith is always required. There are some things that cannot be proven. We believe that life is worth living. That is an article of faith. The purpose of life is to live, to resist death, perhaps to defy entropy. -- George R R Martin
If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious -- George R R Martin
My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it. -- George R R Martin
I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter ... but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. -- George R R Martin
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. -- George R R Martin
I read bells. Not the sound of bells, no, no, but the feel of bells, the emotion of bells, the bright clanging joy, the hooting-shouting-ringing loudness, the song of the Joined, the togetherness and the sharing of it all. -- George R R Martin
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
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things. -- George R R Martin
I have always been a dark writer. -- George R R Martin
I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. -- George R R Martin
Tyrion pushed forward. "MY LORDS! " he shouted. He had to shout, to have any hope of being heard.
His father raised a hand. Bit by bit, the hall grew silent. -- George R R Martin
No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul. -- George R R Martin
What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan. -- George R R Martin
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel. -- George R R Martin
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
Lyanna -- George R R Martin
The thought made his belly heave again. Sam bent over the gunwale and retched, but not into the wind. He had gone to the right rail this time. He was getting good at retching. -- George R R Martin
Thinking of Osha made Bran wonder where she was. He pictured her safe in White Harbor with Rickon and Shaggydog, eating eels and fish and hot crab pie with fat Lord Manderly. -- George R R Martin
I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that? -- George R R Martin
Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has your mother ever told you what happened to him? -- George R R Martin
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
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. -- George R R Martin
Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs -- George R R Martin
Robert got a pair of twins on a serving wench at Casterly Rock, three years ago when he went west for Lord Tywin's tourney. Cersei had the babes killed, and sold the mother to a passing slaver. -- George R R Martin
This is madness, Catelyn thought. Real enemies on every side and half the realm in flames, and Renly sits here playing at war like a boy with his first wooden sword. -- George R R Martin
When his brother Robb burst into the room, breathless from his dash up the tower steps, the direwolf was licking Bran's face. Bran looked up calmly. "His name is Summer," he said. -- George R R Martin
It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear. -- George R R Martin
She saw a roof go up, flames licking at the belly of the night with hot orange tongues as the thatch caught. -- George R R Martin
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. -- George R R Martin
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me. -- George R R Martin
I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. -- George R R Martin
shared his unease. -- George R R Martin
Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live."
"Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling.
"Because winter is coming. -- George R R Martin
I was a wolf, she thought, but now I'm just a stupid little lady again. -- George R R Martin
The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear -- George R R Martin
Not everyone who spoke to you friendly was really your friend. -- George R R Martin
It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised. -- George R R Martin
...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing. -- George R R Martin
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. -- George R R Martin
Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys -- George R R Martin
Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head. -- George R R Martin
Am I still a thief if I put it all back and no one ever knows? -- George R R Martin
I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples, bastards and broken things. -- George R R Martin
If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?'
'Because of men like you. -- George R R Martin
My great beard. I am his queen, but I will always be his cub as well, and he will always guard me -- George R R Martin
Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves. -- George R R Martin
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow -- George R R Martin
Osha studied him. "You asked them and they're answering. Open your ears, listen, you'll hear." Bran listened. "It's only the wind," he said after a moment, uncertain. "The leaves are rustling." "Who do you think sends the wind, if not the gods? -- George R R Martin
Love is madness, and lust is poison. -- George R R Martin
Best stop swallowing, you're like to choke on it. -- George R R Martin
She ducked from her doorway and pressed on, neither too fast nor too slow, soft bootheels silent on the dewy cobbles, her unexceptional hood drawn down to an inconspicuous degree, the very image of a person with just the average amount to hide. -- George R R Martin
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind ... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow. -- George R R Martin
It is hard to die unmourned. -- George R R Martin
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel. -- George R R Martin
When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie. -- George R R Martin
My father once told me that some men are not worth having," Jon finished. "A
bannerman who is brutal or unjust dishonors his liege lord as well as himself. -- George R R Martin
A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness. -- George R R Martin
And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty." "She was," said Meera, "but that's a sadder story. -- George R R Martin
Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island. -- George R R Martin
Licorice steeped in vinegar, with honey and cloves. It will give you some strength and clear your head. -- George R R Martin