A Song of Ice and Fire

"The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song."

"We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky."

"If this is so wrong ... why did the gods make it feel so good?"

"Wars need not be fought until the last drop of blood."

"I'd sooner be stolen by a strong man than be given t'some weakling by my father."

"“Her name is Brienne,” Jaime said. “Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?” Her broad homely face turned red. “Yes.” ”Oh, good,” Jaime said. “I only rescue maidens.”"

"He likes the stories where the knights fight monsters." "Sometimes the knights are the monsters, Bran."

"A true man steals a woman from afar, t'strengthen the clan."

"How can the night be so beautiful? he asked himself. Why would the stars want to look down on the likes of me?"

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

"The sun will not cease to shine if we miss a prayer or two."

"You call us thieves, but at least a thief has to be brave and clever and quick."

"All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live."

"The oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both."

"A man who kills for coin has no honor, but at least they are no slaves."

"Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."

"Do you think I crossed half the world to put yet another vain king on yet another empty throne?"

"There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh."

"The feast seemed to go on forever, yet Sansa tasted none of the food. She wanted it to be done, and yet she dreaded its end."

"A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it."

"Extravagance has its uses."

"The crown is crushing him"

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

"There is truth in the flames, but it is not always easy to see."

"He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in the bedchamber, poor fool."

"Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?"

"A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

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

"I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal."

"That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf, and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons."

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

"That was such a slippery word, may. In any language."

"A man cannot sup from the beggar's bowl all his life and stay a man."

"There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, that beast stirs."

"Shadows only live when given birth by the light."

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

"Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that."

"We look up at the same stars, and see such different things."

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

"You're prettier with your mouth closed."

"Somehow the laughter made her hopeful again, if only for a little while."

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

"I never dreamed how quick the sweet would turn to sour."

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

"There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool."

"A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead."

"There is much confusion in any war."

"Men die in war, even men who are young and strong."

"These little wars are no more than a scuffle of children before what is to come."

"If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you."