George RR Martin

Do you think I crossed half the world to put yet another vain king on yet another empty throne?

"He likes the stories where the knights fight monsters."

"Sometimes the knights are the monsters, Bran."

The night is dark and full of terrors, the day is bright and beautiful and full of hope.

The crown is crushing him

So easy, he remembered thinking. '"A king should die harder than this."

The north remembers.

This was what he was meant for; he never felt so alive as when he was fighting, with death balanced on every stroke.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

If a song makes a maid want to take off her clothes and feel the good warm sun kiss her skin, why, is that the singer's fault?

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.