George RR Martin
Quotes
He loved the wild more than he loved the Wall.
Those are brave men" he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them."
Men fight more fiercely for a king who shares their peril than one who hides behind his mother's skirts.
Do you always smell so bad, or did you just finish fucking a pig?
Send two hundred wolves against ten thousand sheep, ser, and see what happens.
Lord Bolton, he used to say a naked man has few secrets, but a flayed man's got none.
But now there were only a hundred men left to guard a thousand doors, and no one seemed to know who should be where, nor care much.
"Won't your guards protect us?"
"And who will protect us from my guards? Loyal sellswords are rare as virgin whores ... Do you have any notion what happens when a city is sacked, Sansa? No, you wouldn't, would you? All you know of life you learned from singers, and there's such a dearth of good sacking songs."
The gods must have been mad to waste manhood on the likes of him ...
One man on a wall was worth ten beneath it.
If it could burn the Lannisters had burned it; if it could die, they'd killed it.
When you have seen your kings shit over the rail and turn green in a storm, it was hard to bend the knee and pretend they were gods.
