George R.R. Martin Quotes - Page 5

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 those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

Hodor!

You win or you die.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

Mostra che le loro parole possono ferirti, e non sarai più libero dalla derisione. Se proprio vogliono darti un nome, accettalo, fallo tuo, in modo che poi non possano mai più usarlo per farti del male.

È possibile che un uomo che ha paura possa anche essere coraggioso?” “Possibile? Bran, è quella l’unica situazione in cui si fa strada il coraggio”.

Not a queen," said Dany. "A khaleesi.

Das Herz lügt, und der Kopf spielt uns Tricks vor, die Augen aber sehen die Wahrheit.

Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he’s a dragon in human form, you know. That’s why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he’d think himself an apple and we’d all be a deal safer, but there you are.

Where the king goes, the realm follows
-Catlyn Stark-

Pourquoi ? demanda-t-il à l'armurier. Que suis-je pour eux ?
- Un chevalier qui s'est souvenu de ses vœux.

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die.

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.

The heart is all that matters.

Harsh justice is still justice.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)