A Game of Thrones Quotes

“Daenerys Targaryen wed Khal Drogo with fear and barbaric splendor in a field beyond the walls of Pentos, for the Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Let me give you some counsel, bastard," Lannister said. "Never forget what you are , for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Alyn carried the Stark banner. When she saw him rein in beside Lord Beric to exchange words, it made Sansa feel ever so proud. Alyn was handsomer than Jory had been; he was going to be a knight one day. The Tower of the Hand”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Lord Balon grunted. “Casterly Rock has never fallen.” “Until now.” Theon smiled. And how sweet that will be. His father did not return the smile. “So this is why Robb Stark sends you back to me, after so long? So you might win my consent to this plan of his?” “It is my plan, not Robb’s,” Theon said proudly. Mine, as the victory will be mine, and in time the”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Tyrion Lannister reached up and slapped his nephew hard across the face. The boy's cheek began to redden. 'One word,' Tyrion said, 'and I will hit you again.' 'I'm going to tell Mother!' Joffrey exclaimed. Tyrion hit him again. Now both cheeks flamed.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind … and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Bran looked up calmly. “His name is Summer,” he said.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Now, Bran, the crow urged. Choose. Fly or die. Death reached for him, screaming. Bran spread his arms and flew.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You're asking a lame man to teach a cripple how to dance.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. Laws are a tedious business and counting coppers is worse. And the people ... there is no end of them. I sit on that damnable iron chair and listen to them complain until my mind is numb and my ass is raw. They all want somenthing, money or land or justice. The lies they tell ... and my lords and ladies are no better. I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness, Ned. Half of them don't dare to tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it. There are nights I wish we had lost at the Trident. Ah, no, not truly, but...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Over their heads flapped the banner of the Starks of Winterfell: a grey direwolf racing across an ice-white field. Bran”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You Starks are hard to kill,” Jon agreed.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Hear Me Roar.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Look at what kinging has done to me. Gods, too fat for my armor, how did it ever come to this?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Troubled sleep was no stranger to him. He had lived his lies for fourteen years,”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine,” Ned said, “but that was not one of them.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You’ll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.” Arya didn’t think it was funny. “I hate needlework!” she said with passion. “It’s not fair!”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered. Farms”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“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

“لا أحد آمنًا .. لا يقين في الحياة.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The Night’s Watch is thousands of years old,” he said, “but I’ll wager Lord Snow’s the first brother ever honored for burning down the Lord Commander’s Tower.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Mia moglie? Che gli Estranei se la portino alla dannazione!”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If he doesn’t give her back, chop off his manhood and feed it to the goats,” Tyrion promised. “Provided you can find some.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. “The wildlings are dead.” “Do the dead frighten you?” Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Honor set you on the kingsroad … and honor brought you back.” “My friends brought me back,” Jon said. “Did I say it was your honor?” Mormont”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The Night’s Watch permitted the forest to come no closer than half a mile of the north face of the Wall. The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones