"Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew."

"When men are dying every hour, no one looks too hard at one more dead man."

"The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it."

"Parchments had been signed, but wars were not fought on parchments."

"He did his duty. Some nights, Ser Barristan wondered if he had not done that duty too well."

"Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men—quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failings that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst... The worst were those who played the game of thrones."

"At night Tyrion would oft hear her praying. A waste of words. If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. Who else would make a world like this, so full of bondage, blood, and pain?"

"You're prettier with your mouth closed."

"Men can't own the land no more'n they can own the sea or the sky."

"You need not trust a man to use him."

"“You are not wrong.” Jon said. “I do not know. And if the gods are good, I never will.” “The gods are seldom good, Jon Snow.”"

"The night is dark and full of terrors, the day is bright and beautiful and full of hope."

"“Men are mad and gods are madder,” she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement."

"To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow."

"That is how it is when a man grows as old as Pycelle. Everything see or hear reminds you of something yo saw or heard when you were younger."

"Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend."

"So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever exist."

"Most days, she spent more time with the dead than the living.'"

"Some men say there is wisdom in wine. Such men are fools."

"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you're dying."

"How long must I be blind?" "Until darkness is as sweet to you as light"

"Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you."

"The sun and moon and stars had been gone so long that Asha was starting to wonder"

"A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother."

"The sky turned from black to white and seemed no brighter."

"Only a fool deserts the winning side."

"Perhaps I cannot make my people good, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad."

"No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise."

"The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down. They say he left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly. Jon Snow, she named him, after Arryn."

"In times like these, it is better to be insignificant"

"The strength of the Wall was its height; the length of the Wall was its weakness."

"The more you give a king, the more he wants."

"A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands."

"All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire."

"Not to say that the wildlings mean us harm. Aye, we hacked their gods apart and made them burn the pieces, but we gave them onion soup. What’s a god compared to a nice bowl of onion soup?"

"Men love to complain about their wives and lords ... Those without wives complain twice as much about their lords."

"There will be pain." "I'll scream." "A great deal of pain." "I'll scream very loudly."

"Extravagance has its uses."

"Age makes ruins of us all."

"When the choice is debt or death, best to borrow."

"Making mock of another man's prayer is fool's work."

"I've won every battle, yet somehow I'm losing the war."

"Gold has its uses, but wars are won with iron."

"Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been." Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?" That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter."

"A smuggler had best know men as well as tides, or he would not live to smuggle long."

"Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure."

"Any man can read, my lord. There is no magic needed, nor high birth."

"The best way to learn a thing was to do it, he had found; sails or scrolls, it made no matter."

"Small men curse what they cannot understand."

"Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner."