Song Of Ice And Fire Quotes

• My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Brother, Kings

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.114, Bantam

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• A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Ice, Mind

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.121, Bantam

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• You know nothing, Jon Snow

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Fire, Knowing Nothing

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1758, Bantam

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Ice, Fantasy

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Children, Wall

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1402, Bantam

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• There are no men like me. There's only me

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Men, Ice

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1290, Bantam

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• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Ice, Identity

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.60, Bantam

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• History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Men, Wheels

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.165, Bantam

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• There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Father, What Matters

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.784, Bantam

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• And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Lannisters

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2227, Bantam

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• What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ice, Stronger, May

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• A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

  George R. R. Martin

  Should Have, Doe, Rewards

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1240, Bantam

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• The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

  George R. R. Martin

  Courage, Men, Brave

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.526, Bantam

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• When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

  George R. R. Martin

  Friendship, Inspiring, Loneliness

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1473, Bantam

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• 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 their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Fire, Feet

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2227, Bantam

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• The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Responsibility, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.28, Bantam

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• Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sweet, Love Is, Poison

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1362, Bantam

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

  George R. R. Martin

  Games, Play, Suffering

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.562, Bantam

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• When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

  George R. R. Martin

  Truth, Fear, Liars

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam

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• Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

  George R. R. Martin

  Diversity, Pathways, Castles

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.97, Bantam

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• I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

  George R. R. Martin

  Blood, Ice, Ink

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2820, Bantam

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• I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Thinking, Giving

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1377, Bantam

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• Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.

  George R. R. Martin

  Clever, Men, Doe

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.863, Bantam

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• Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

  George R. R. Martin

  Confused, Thrones, Want

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2138, Bantam

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