Quote

It's not, Mormont told him. Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

George R. R. Martin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
Blogger
Contributing Editor
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Bayonne
New Jersey
George Raymond Richard Martin
GRRM
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Martin
Night
Gods
Come
Matters
Matter
Save
Men
Blind
Throne
Think
Stupid
Sits
Thinking
Boys
Thrones
Dead
Hunting
Told
Iron

More quotes by George R. R. Martin

Image
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)
George R. R. Martin
Image
We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.
George R. R. Martin
Image
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Fiction is lies we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R. R. Martin
Image
There are ghosts everywhere, Ser Jorah said softly. We carry them with us wherever we go.
George R. R. Martin
Image
He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.
George R. R. Martin
Image
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
George R. R. Martin
Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
George R. R. Martin
Image
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
George R. R. Martin
Image
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.
George R. R. Martin
Image
He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)
George R. R. Martin
Image
Books are dead men talking.
George R. R. Martin
Image
Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
George R. R. Martin