When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.
If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
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.
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I’m a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.
When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.
Wine makes all things possible.
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.