"Justice. I remember justice. It had a pleasant taste. Justice was what we were about when Beric led us, or so we told ourselves. We were king’s men, knights, and heroes... but some knights are dark and full of terrors, my lady. War makes monsters of us all."

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

"The path of faith was a crooked one."

"You can buy a man with gold, but only blood and steel will keep him true."

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

"Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned."

"It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones."

"The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity."

"Corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death shall have improved them."

"In the black of night a man asks all the questions he dares not ask by daylight."

"He blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. Once he asked Maester Aemon that very question, when Gilly was down at the canal fetching water for them. “When you raised him up to be the lord commander,” the old man answered."

"A swift sword stroke is a better defense than any shield"

"Some kisses are worth more than yellow gold"

"Salt a slug and shame a hero, and they shrink right up."

"Even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred and first."

"Sins can be forgiven. Crimes require punishment."

"The war of the Ninepenny Kings?” asked Hyle Hunt. “So they called it, though I never saw a king, nor earned a penny. It was a war though. That it was."

"All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it."

"You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men."

"A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes."

"A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it."

"Only the sound of the waves pounding remained, a roar no man could still."

"Once a man had turned his tail and run from battle he ceased to be a man."

"Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old."

"In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. Mark that well, Alayne. It's a lesson that Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn."

"When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master."

"A woman may weep, but not a queen."

"If there are rocks to starboard and storms to port, a wise captain steers a third course."

"I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."

"Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels."

"I have never met a man I didn't provoke."

"Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again."

"There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them."

"No fight is hopeless till it has been fought."

"Some lies are love."

"Almost a prayer...but was it the god he was invoking, the Father Above whose towering gilded likeness glimmered in the candlelight across the sept? Or was he praying to the corpse that lay before him? Does it matter? They never listened, either one."

"A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant."

"Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves."

"I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones."

"Fear makes even strong men do things they might never do otherwise."

"Wizards may be well and good, but blood and steel win wars."

"When the cold wind blows the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."

"You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your house on a cold night."

"Name the cow what you will, so long as the milk flows."

"Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach."

"I can't command you to be brave, but I can command you to hide your fears."

"The more you give a king the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible."

"I wished to understand the nature of death, so I opened the bodies of the living."

"Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle."

"Who would cloak themselves in shame?"