“what avails statecraft against the love of a mother for the sweet fruit of her womb?” — 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
“Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“My own father could not love me. Why would you if not for gold?” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It was the feel of it, the love of it, not the thought: it was instinct and reflex and knowing the wind,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Loves not always wise, I've learned it. It can lead us to great folly, but we follow our hearts...wherever they take us.” — george r.r. martin Copy Share Image
“Are you a maid, Penny?" She blushed. "Yes. Of course. Who would have –" "Stay that way. Love is madness, and lust… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I will remember, Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what she looked like. I only know she was the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride’s father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Robert wanted smiles and cheers, always, so he went where he found them, to his friends and his whores. Robert wanted to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I’d stake my soul on… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“And the mystery knight should win the tourney, defeating every challenger, and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.”… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Then Lord Eddard is a man in ten thousand. Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a… — 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
