“The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey's head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones.” — 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
“But a dragon could not feed a hungry child nor help a dying woman’s pain. And who would ever dare to love… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I’ve fucked you, you’re likely with child. It’s not every man who… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The king heard him. “You stiff-necked fool,” he muttered, “too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“No, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“What do I have? A life to live? Work to do? Children to raise, lands to rule, a woman to love? “You… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Gentle Mother, font of mercy, save our sons from war, we pray, stay the swords and stay the arrows, let them know… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time." He put two fingers on her left breast. "Even here. In… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Now we will begin the dance. Remember, child, this is not the iron dance of Westeros we are learning, the knight's dance,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book.… — 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
“Jon, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?'' Maester Aemon asked.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud. You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Bones, Catelyn thought. This is not Ned, this is not the man I loved, the father of my children. His hands were… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Mhysa!” a brown-skinned man shouted out at her. He had a child on his shoulder, a little girl, and she screamed the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Bran knew. "She's a child. A child of the forest." He shivered, as much from wonderment as cold. They had fallen into… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It hurts so much, she thought. Our children, Ned, all our sweet babes. Rickon, Bran, Arya, Sansa, Robb… Robb… please, Ned, please,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Ned looked down gravely at the sword in his hands. “This is no toy for children, least of all for a girl.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The Father protects his children, the septons taught, but Davos had led his boys into the fire. Dale would never give his… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You told me that the children of the forest had the greensight. I remember.” “Some claimed to have that power. Their wise… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Now these were the days before the Andals came, and long before the women fled across the narrow sea from the cities… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Talking gargoyles and prophecies in the sky. I am an old done man, grown giddy as a child again.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“As hard as birth can be, Brienne, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like… — 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 Image
“It is my look they will flinch from now, my frown that they must fear.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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
“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 Image
“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
