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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.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

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

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

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

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

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

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