George R. R. Martin Quotes

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.