You’ll think of me every time you go to bed. Then you’ll get hard and you’ll have no one to help you and you’ll never be able to sleep unless you-” She grinned that wicked grin Tyrion liked so well. “-is that why they call it the Tower of the Hand, m’lord?

— George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin Quotes

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

— George R.R. Martin
Depressing Sad About Life Love Hurts

You’ve got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

— George R.R. Martin

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

— George R.R. Martin

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? – Stannis.

— George R.R. Martin

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon.

— George R.R. Martin

I can be humbler than anyone.

— George R.R. Martin

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

— George R.R. Martin

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

— George R.R. Martin

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

— George R.R. Martin

Books are dead men talking.

— George R.R. Martin
Book

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

— George R.R. Martin
Disrespect

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

— George R.R. Martin

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you.

— George R.R. Martin

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

— George R.R. Martin

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

— George R.R. Martin

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

— George R.R. Martin
Fiction

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

— George R.R. Martin

We’re all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I’m trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

— George R.R. Martin

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

— George R.R. Martin

It’s very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they’re cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

— George R.R. Martin
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