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Back Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog…
- The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now…
- A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we…
- Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go…
- I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and…
- The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James…
- If I look back I am lost.
- When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?
- It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of…
- It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?”…
- a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see…
- Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. “You are too skinny for him,” Jhiqui was saying. “You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with…
- If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know…
- I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair…
- The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with.…
- When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to…
- Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window,…
- Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the…
- Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah
- I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his…
- He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have…
- Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful,…
- I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been…
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