A Game of Thrones Quotes

“The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.”
― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Aquello que amamos siepre acaba por destruirnos”
― George R.R. Martin, Juego de tronos

“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder and the black that ate the skies;
The flames that shot so high and hot that even dragons burned;
Would never be the final sights that fell upon their eyes.
A fly upon a wall, the waves the sea wind whipped and churned —
The city of a thousand years, and all that men had learned;
The Doom consumed it all alike, and neither of them turned"
―Tyrion Lannister and Jorah Mormont, quoting a poem about the Doom”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You are quick, for a dancing master, said Ser Meryn. You are slow, for a knight, Syrio replied.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share with those you love and Trust
Ned Stark”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“---Sansa sat with her hands folded in her lap, watching with a strange fascination. She had never seen a man die before. She ought to be crying too, she thought, but the tears would not come. Perhaps she had used up all her tears for Lady and Bran. It would be different if it had been Jory or Ser Rodrik or Father, she told herself. The young man in the blue cloak was nothing to her, some stranger from the Vale of Arryn whose name she had forgotten as soon as she heard it. And now the world would forget his name too, Sansa realized; there would be no songs sung for him. That was sad.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Even now, he was a Stark of Winterfell, and his grief and his rage froze hard inside him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The wolf pup loved her, even if no one else did.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“He is a rare bird,' the maester said. 'Most ravens will eat grain, but they prefer flesh. It makes them strong, and I fear they relish the taste of blood. In that they are like men... and like men, not all ravens are alike.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Searching is not finding.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother”
― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it you own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Hodor?"
"Hodor.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Yet our way is the older way. The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.”
― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“By then Ser Gregor Clegane was in position at the head of the lists. He was huge, the biggest man that Eddard Stark had ever seen. Robert Baratheon and his brothers were all big men, as was the Hound, and back at Winterfell there was a simpleminded stableboy named Hodor who dwarfed them all, but the knight they called the Mountain That Rides would have towered over Hodor. He was well over seven feet tall, closer to eight, with massive shoulders and arms thick as the trunks of small trees. His destrier seemed a pony in between his armored legs, and the lance he carried looked as small as a broom handl”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Oh, I can see that,” Catelyn said. “Lord Tully is fond of song, I hear. No doubt you’ve been to Riverrun.”

“A hundred times,” Marillion the singer said airily. “They keep a chamber for me, and the young lord is like a brother.”

Catelyn smiled, wondering what Edmure would think of that. Another singer had once bedded a girl her brother fancied; he had hated the breed ever since. “And Winterfell?” she asked him. “Have you traveled north?”

“Why would I?” Marillion asked. “It’s all blizzards and bearskins up there, and the Starks know no music but the howling of wolves.” Distantly, she was aware of the door banging open at the far end of the room.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Ned looked down gravely at the sword in his hands. “This is no toy for children, least of all for a girl. What would Septa Mordane say if she knew you were playing with swords?”

“I wasn’t playing,” Arya insisted. “I hate Septa Mordane.”

“That’s enough.” Her father’s voice was curt and hard. “The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman. Your mother and I have charged her with the impossible task of making you a lady.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Where the king goes, the realm follows
-Catlyn Stark-”
― George R.R. Martin 2005, A Game of Thrones

“The Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep the blood line pure.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Las cosas que amamos siempre acaban por destruirnos.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“One thing all the stories agreed on: King Robert was dead. The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the city in a bronze tide. They only rang the bells like that for the death of a king, a tanner's boy told Arya.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones