844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.

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.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

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

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.