George R. R. Martin

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

I would choose freedom over comfort every time.

The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.

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.