Martin > Martin's Quotes

“Mom: Your hair is getting long. Who are you trying to be? John Lennon?
David: Cher.
Mom: Your voice isn't deep enough.”
― Dan Skinner, Memorizing You

“So what are you going to wear?”
I looked at her, wondering if she thought I had suddenly grown a vagina in the past five minutes. “Clothes.”
― Sean Kennedy, Tigers and Devils

“When single you are,” Roger said, imitating Yoda dispensing advice to Luke, “get laid you can. When married you get, make love you do.”
― Sean Kennedy, Tigers and Devils

“That's part of being gay, you know. It's not just who you want in bed. It's who your emotional relationships are with the other twenty-three hours of the day, whose arms you want around you when life hands you shit.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“you’ve been all black and white, like Kansas. It’s time to get back to Oz. Enjoy the colors.”
― Kaje Harper, Life Lessons

“May I just say that religion and logic don't always go together, and then we can move on.”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person...”
― Kaje Harper, Breaking Cover

“You curse a lot."

"Fuck you - I hardly curse at all.”
― Tere Michaels, Faith & Fidelity

“Got any mood music?”
“If you press Play on the stereo you’re going to hear Miley Cyrus.”
“I don’t know who that is.”
“Count your blessings.”
― Tere Michaels, Faith & Fidelity

“You become a cop and they teach you about protecting people and keeping them safe. But they don’t tell you how it rips your heart out when you realize you can’t do it. You can’t save everybody.”
― Tere Michaels, Faith & Fidelity

“I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.”
― G.N. Chevalier, Bonds of Earth

“Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"

Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes."

"Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You have a martyr complex, you know that?" "Course I do. I'm Catholic".”
― T. Baggins, Protection

“It's a kilt, dumbass. It's only a skirt if I'm wearing underwear.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“I'll take Classic 69 and semen-swapping for $300”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“I want you to move in with me, man."
"Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“Because I love you!"

There it was, out in the air. Griff's eyes got wide. The words had come out angry, but Dante had meant them. He couldn't open his perfect mouth and swallow them back.

His face softened. "In love, I mean. With you. For so long.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“The idea that everything happens for a reason comes from people who've been lucky all their lives.”
― T. Baggins, Fifteen Shades of Gay [For Pay]

“Trying to make rules for adults is messy, especially when some are rich, some are poor, some are reliable, and some are deadbeats.”
― T. Baggins, Fifteen Shades of Gay [For Pay]

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss