George RR Martin
Quotes
If sinners speak, why should the righteous listen?
You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.
Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure.
I have never met a man I didn't provoke.
"Fuck" had been the first word of the Common Tongue that Xhondo had learned, and he was very fond of it.
On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
A little mistrust is a good thing in a princess.
He blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. Once he asked Maester Aemon that very question, when Gilly was down at the canal fetching water for them. “When you raised him up to be the lord commander,” the old man answered.
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.
"You must be blind as well as maimed, Ser. Lift your eyes, and you will see the direwolf still flies above our walls."
Salt a slug and shame a hero, and they shrink right up.
Corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death shall have improved them.
