844 Quotes by George R. R. Martin

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

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

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown. For you shall be my lady love, and I shall be your lord. I’ll always keep you warm and safe, and guard you with my sword. And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me. I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest lass.

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

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?