George RR Martin

Sins can be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach.

For a mute to take a vow of silence would be akin to a legless man giving up the dance.

The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity.

Almost a prayer...but was it the god he was invoking, the Father Above whose towering gilded likeness glimmered in the candlelight across the sept? Or was he praying to the corpse that lay before him? Does it matter? They never listened, either one.

I wished to understand the nature of death, so I opened the bodies of the living.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

A swift sword stroke is a better defense than any shield

A woman may weep, but not a queen.

Wizards may be well and good, but blood and steel win wars.

You know the best thing about heroes, Jaime? They all die young and leave more women for the rest of us.

Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels.