George R.R. Martin

“Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.”

“And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”

“...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime,”

“All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned.”

“So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.”

“I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother”

“Only a starving man asks bread from a begger”

“You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.”

“There is power in a King's blood.”

“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.”

“Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the other who would drag us all into the eternal light”

“If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.”

“A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.”

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”

“The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.”

“The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones”

“Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.”

“Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.”

“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”

“Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.”