David Benioff Quotes

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboard of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was bor...

It smelled like jail...sore knees and loose assholes.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

The man knows he's a target. He's very careful. The'll find the guns.'Kolya responded with a mournful fart, low and solemn as a single note of a baritone horn.

Ah, the farmer, he kicks the first sack, ‘Meow,’ and so on. He kicks the second sack, and the boy inside says, ‘Woof!’ Pretending to be— Kolya pointed at me to finish the sentence. A cow. A dog. When...

Arrojó su taco de papel sobre la mesa, y pude ver que no había estado tomando notas, como pensé, sino simplemente dibujando equis una y otra vez, hasta que la hoja entera estaba cubierta de ellas. Por...

They have decided nothing nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.

Might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Every woman has a dream lover and anightmare lover. The nightmare lover, he just lies on top of her, crushing her with his belly, jabbing his little tool in and out till he's finished. He got his eyes...

Fuck Jesus Christ, he got off easy, an afternoon on the cross, a weekend in hell, and then the hallelujahs of all the legioned angels.

Ho sempre invidiato le persone che prendono sonno all'istante. Devono avere la testa più ordinata, le pareti del cranio ben pulite, tutti i mostriciattoli chiusi in un baule ai piedi del letto. Io ho...

I was a runt from birth. Big nosed, black haired, skin scribbled with acne—let’s admit I was no girl’s idea of a catch. But war made me more attractive. Others dwindled as the ration cards were cut an...

This life came so close to never happening..

Kolya was a braggart, a know-it-all, a Jew-baiting Cossack, but his confidence was so pure and complete it no longer seemed like arrogance, just the mark of a man who had accepted his own heroic desti...

Vika sat next to me, chewing on her fingernails. She chewed methodically, not an anxious person with a nervous habit but a butcher sharpening his knives.

Lihatlah bajingan-bajingan itu mengencingi tanah kita. Mereka tak akan tertawa sekeras itu ketika aku berjongkok dan buang air besar di tengah-tengah Berlin. Mungkin itulah sebabnya aku tidak bisa men...

I have never been much a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death ensured that such a wish was carried out. Peter commanded far more affection and loyalty f...

What Slattery wants is a ring painted on concrete in the empty desert. With no living spectator around for miles, just him and the grinning demons. A chance to fight them each, one by one . . . to lea...

In certain ways I am deeply stupid. I don’t say this out of modesty. I believe that I’m more intelligent than the average human being, though perhaps intelligence should not be looked at as a single g...

If we piled them up, they would reach God.’ ‘But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.’ ‘Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.’ Old one. Jokes only get old if they’re good. Otherwise, who keeps telling...