“Men were not meant to leave the earth. Spend too much time in the clouds and you never want to come back… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Why would Petyr lie to me?” “Why does a bear shit in the woods?” he demanded. “Because it is his nature.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“when there are no battles to fight, men start to think about hearth and harvest.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He smelled like grass and warm earth, like smoke and semen and horses.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“He was a veteran of a hundred rangings by now, and the endless dark wilderness that the southron called the haunted forest… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I swear it by earth and water,” said the boy in green. “I swear it by bronze and iron,” his sister said.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Why does a bear shit in the woods? he demanded. Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I swear it by earth and water,"said the boy in green. "I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said. "We… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As he strode across the strand, a drowned man returning from a call of nature stumbled into him in the darkness. “Damphair,”… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As he stood outside the armory looking up, Jon felt almost as overwhelmed as he had that day on the kingsroad, when… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“My trees, they said, you can’t eat them apples. My stream, you can’t fish here. My wood, you’re not t’ hunt. My… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“Megga couldn’t sing, but she was mad to be kissed. She and Alla played a kissing game sometimes, she confessed, but it wasn’t the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“On the morning after battle the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike. How much can a crown be worth when a crow… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“Jon, could there be honor in a lie, if it were told for a...good purpose? - Samwell” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.” “Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share
