Quotes by George R.R. Martin

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Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid." "What do you think?" his father asked. 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.

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Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

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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 wh...

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It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

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

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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

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

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

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She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

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No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed to almost vanish when seen edge on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing and a ghost light that played ...

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The pale sword came shivering through the air

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Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

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As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the fir...

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And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

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Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. She would kill herself rather than go on, she decided one night... Yet when she slept that night, she dreamt the dragon dream again. Viserys was not in ...

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Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she look...

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So they will not love, for love is the bane of honour, the death of duty.

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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

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Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

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You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...

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I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

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