George R. R. Martin Quotes

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Dark with excessive bright.