844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.

It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter