Quotes by George R.R. Martin

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A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

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Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my f...

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She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

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Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

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Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

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Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

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He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

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I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.

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We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.

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Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran." "Yesterday you said you loved them." "Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I ne...

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It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

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Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

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old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselvse?

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Begging for help never gets you any.

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There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

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Men are men ... Dragons are dragons.

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

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Are you certain they never cut your member off?" Tormund gave a shrug, as if to say he would never understand such madness. "Well, you are a free man now, but if you will have the girl, best find yourself a she-bear. If a man does not use his member ...

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My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.

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Olenna: Margaery, you're clever, be a dear and tell your poor old half-daft grandmother the name of that queer fish from the Summer Isles that puffs up to ten times its own size when you poke it. Margaery: They call them puff fish, Grandmother. Olenn...

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