844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

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

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

I would choose freedom over comfort every time.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.