George R.R. Martin

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Why has no one come to pry me out of here?- Cersei

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? Don't you SEE?

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He__ been taken by the Starks and we__e lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king.The dwarf smiled crookedly. __ll sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

My uncle always said that it was the sword in a man's hand that determined his worth, not the one between his legs.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.