George R. R. Martin Quotes

Men can’t own the land no more’n they can own the sea or the sky.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

You can’t hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn’t mean tin is useless.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms…or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.

Those are brave men. Let’s go kill them.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.