George R R Martin Game Of Thrones Quotes & Sayings

I am not without mercy, thundered he who was notoriously without mercy. — George R R Martin

The North remembers. — George R R Martin

The septons preach about the seven hells. What do they know? Only a man who's been burned knows what hell is truly like"
... She was sad for him, she realized. Somehow, the fear had gone away.
The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. She found his massive shoulder with her hand. "He was no true knight," she whispered to him. — George R R Martin

Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn.
The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life? — George R R Martin

It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all. — George R R Martin

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.'
'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle. — George R R Martin

I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act. — George R R Martin

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. — George R R Martin

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. — George R R Martin

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? — George R R Martin

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night. — George R R Martin

Valar morghulis.
Yes. All men must die, but we are not men. — George R R Martin

If ... if certain things should come to pass, I will send word to each of you. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. — George R R Martin

Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings. — George R R Martin

I spent a whole summer working on what proved to be 'A Game of Thrones'. — George R R Martin

Never ask me about Jon; he is my blood and that is all you need to know! Ned was different. He brought his bastard home, and called him son. — George R R Martin

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shave', Arya said.
'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs? — George R R Martin

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. — George R R Martin

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon — George R R Martin

One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong. But not today. It could not be today. — George R R Martin

So the wolfling is leaving his den to play among the lions, he said in a voice of quiet satisfaction. — George R R Martin

Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible, and red. — George R R Martin

Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. — George R R Martin

When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground. — George R R Martin

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

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life — George R R Martin

I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones. — George R R Martin

Hodor?"
"Hodor. — George R R Martin

Even the truest knight cannot protect a king against himself — George R R Martin

You want to know the horrible truth ?
I cant even remember what she looked like! I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted..and 7 kingdoms couldnt fill the hole she left behind — George R R Martin

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. — George R R Martin

There were times - not many, but a few - when Jon Snow was glad he was a bastard. — George R R Martin

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. — George R R Martin

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

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. — George R R Martin

Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'. — George R R Martin

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity. — George R R Martin

All halls lead somewhere. Where there is a way in, there is a way out. Fear cuts deeper than swords.
-Arya Stark — George R R Martin

Laughter is poison to fear. (Catelyn Stark) — George R R Martin

All Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known. — George R R Martin

Of course it is, thought Tyrion. The game of thrones. "As you say, Captain," he murmured, bowing once again. — George R R Martin

Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and Mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it. -Arya Stark — George R R Martin

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon," or "Look at me, I'm a wizard," or "Look at me, look at me, I'm the rain god."
The bold little boy with wild black hair and laughing eyes was a man grown now, one-and-twenty, and still he played his games. Look at me, I'm a king, Cressen thought sadly. — George R R Martin

The only game. The game of thrones. — George R R Martin

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again. — George R R Martin

Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt. — George R R Martin

That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed. — George R R Martin

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness. — George R R Martin

But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, — George R R Martin

The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat. — George R R Martin

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers. — George R R Martin

Do the dead frighten you? — George R R Martin

That's no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too. — George R R Martin

That was your moment. All you needed to do was climb those steps, and sit. Such a sad mistake." "I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them." "Oh, but it was, my lord," Cersei insisted. "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." She turned up her hood to hide her swollen face and left him there in the dark beneath the oak, amidst the quiet of the godswood, under a blue-black sky. The stars were coming out. — George R R Martin

...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing. — George R R Martin

People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am. — George R R Martin

It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts. — George R R Martin

Laughter is poison to fear. — George R R Martin

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.' — Kris Holden-Ried

Arya, What are you doing?"
"Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself.
Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased.
"ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance.
"Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps."
"Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls. — George R R Martin

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. — George R R Martin

'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show. — Alex Graves

Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Nothing burns like the cold. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, A Game of Thrones Laughter is poison to fear. — George R R Martin

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. — George R R Martin

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. — George R R Martin

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall. — George R R Martin

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?
Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. — George R R Martin

I never win anything," Dolorous Edd complained. "The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice depp proof of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?"
"Was it a long fall?" Green wanted to know. "Did landing in the pool of water save his life?"
"No," said Dolorous Edd. "He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks. — George R R Martin

Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. Words are wind, and the wind is always blowing at the Wall. — George R R Martin

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover. — George R R Martin

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm ... — George R R Martin

The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers. — George R R Martin

Fire - A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons - as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with — George R R Martin

What ... what game?" "The only game. The game of thrones. — George R R Martin

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win. — George R R Martin

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear — George R R Martin

Varys gave a long weary sigh, the sigh of a man who carried all the sadness of the world in a sack upon his shoulders. "The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. If that's true, Lord Eddard, tell me ... why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? Ponder it, if you would, while you wait upon the queen. And spare a thought for this as well: The next visitor who calls on you could bring you bread and cheese and the milk of the poppy for your pain ... or he could bring you Sansa's head. "The choice, my dear lord Hand, is entirely yours. — George R R Martin

Hold yourself.. why Winter is coming. Eddard Stark — George R R Martin

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.

Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. — George R R Martin

Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek. — George R R Martin

My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue. — Austin Grossman

Knowledge could be more valuable than gold, more deadly than a dagger. — George R R Martin

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been. — George R R Martin

I don't know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion."
"What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs."
"You gave me help when I needed it" Jon Snow said.
"I gave you nothing," Tyrion said. "Words."
"Then give your words to Bran too. — George R R Martin

Love is the death of duty. — George R R Martin

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys — George R R Martin

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen — George R R Martin

No, thought the dwarf, he plays the game of thrones, and you and Griff and Duck are only pieces, to be moved where he will and sacrificed at need, just as he sacrificed Viserys. — George R R Martin

Barristan Semly was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men - quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failing that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst ...
The worst were those who played the game of thrones. — George R R Martin

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen — George R R Martin

In life the monsters win' - Sansa Stark — George R R Martin

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant. — George R R Martin

It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are." Dany — George R R Martin

Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to
Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson.
Cat. — George R R Martin

Things are not always as they seemed, Much that may seem evil can be good. — George R R Martin

The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant. — George R R Martin

It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised. — George R R Martin

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. — George R R Martin

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear. — George R R Martin

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. — George R R Martin