George R. R. Martin Quotes

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

You were made to be kissed, often and well.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

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

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

The man who fears losing has already lost.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

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

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

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

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Laughter is poison to fear.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

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

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.