George R.R. Martin Quotes: 34

• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

  A Dance with Dragons

• ... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

  A Game of Thrones

• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

  A Game of Thrones

• Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

• Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

  A Game of Thrones

• Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  A Game of Thrones

• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

  A Game of Thrones

• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.

  A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

• Winter is coming.

  A Game of Thrones

• When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

  A Game of Thrones

• The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

  A Game of Thrones

• Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

  A Game of Thrones

• The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

  A Game of Thrones

• Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

  A Game of Thrones

• People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

  A Clash of Kings

• It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

• Laughter is poison to fear.

  A Game of Thrones

• We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

• A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

  A Game of Thrones

• If you need help bark like a dog."- Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help."- Arya

  A Clash of Kings

• I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

  A Storm of Swords

• 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)

  A Game of Thrones

• Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

• ...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?" "In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty,"he replied.

  A Game of Thrones

• I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

• Her name is Brienne,"Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes." "Oh, good,"Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.

  A Storm of Swords

• Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

  A Storm of Swords

• I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. 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.

  A Game of Thrones

• Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.

• Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

  A Dance with Dragons

• He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

  A Feast for Crows

• He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

  A Game of Thrones

• Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

  A Dance with Dragons

• Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

  A Storm of Swords