{"quotes":[{"text":"The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even you body. 'You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight , the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing.' Battle fever. I am half a man and drunk with slaughter, let them kill me if they can!","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["battle","tyrion-lannister","war"],"id":7144,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["dwarf","food","game-of-thrones","tyrion-lannister"],"id":60526,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are.' He favored Jon with a rueful grin. 'Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs.' And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["a-song-of-ice-and-fire","asoiaf","game-of-thrones","got","inspiring","king","kings","lannister","shadow","shadows","tyrion","tyrion-lannister"],"id":172916,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["books","intellect","reading","strength","tyrion-lannister"],"id":201723,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["dragons","george-r-r-martin","humour","sci-fi","tyrion-lannister"],"id":212383,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["a-game-of-thrones","a-song-of-ice-and-fire","curiosity","george-r-r-martin","tyrion-lannister","wall"],"id":274495,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["a-dance-with-dragons","cersei-lannister","greed","love","power","tyrion-lannister"],"id":278658,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"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.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["enemy","friendship","humor","lord-varys","tyrion-lannister"],"id":300979,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.”“Even the lies?”“Especially the lies. Lord Petyr….","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["humorous","petyr-baelish","tyrion-lannister"],"id":347203,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["a-song-of-ice-and-fire","alcohol","drunk","dwarf","feast","jon-snow","tyrion-lannister"],"id":348867,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}