"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."

"If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?"

"Could there be honor in a lie if it were told for a ... a good purpose?"

"No promise was as solemn as one sworn to the dead."

"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?"

"Is an oxcart an oxcart without an ox?"

"A living man can find the sea more easily than a dead one."

"Stopping proved simple, rest came hard."

"Burning dead children had ceased to trouble Jon Snow; live ones were another matter."

"Yes and no ... can go a long way once you find the right questions."

"The dead should not eat better than the living."

"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish."

"A wall is only as good as the men defending it."

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

"They chanted in the tongue of Old Volantis, but Tyrion had heard the prayers enough to grasp the essence. Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more."

"A gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor."

"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."

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

"Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence."

"“Maester Luwin says there’s nothing in dreams that a man need fear.” “There is,” said Jojen. “What?” “The past. The future. The truth.”"

"... for a moment the forest seemed a deep green sea, storm-tossed and heaving, eternal and unknowable."

"What sort of knight beats helpless maids?" "The one who serves his king ..."

"If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?"

"Look across the fields, brother? Do you see all those banners?" "Do you think a few bolts of cloth will make you king?"

"You'd best get a bird ready. Mormont will want to send back word." "I wish I could send them all. They hate being caged." "You would too, if you could fly."

""I am not without mercy", thundered he who was notoriously without mercy."

"It is real, all of it, he thought, the wars, the intrigues, the great bloody game, and me in the center of it ... me, the dwarf, the monster, the one they scorned and laughed at, but now I hold it all, the city, the girl. This was what I was made for, and gods forgive me, but I love it."

"As for those she served with, she did not even want to even know their names. That only made it hurt worse when they died."

"Gods do not forget ..."

"“Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.”"

"You think I'm wrong to keep the rangers close?" "It's not for me to say, my lord." "It is if you're asked."

"The middle wall, forty feet high, was grey granite alive with scenes of war: the clash of sword and shield and spear, arrows in flight, heroes at battle and babes being butchered, pyres of the dead. The innermost wall was fifty feet of black marble, with carvings that made Dany blush until she told herself that she was being a fool. She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall’s scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?"

"“Kings have no friends,” Stannis said bluntly, “only subjects and enemies.”"

"I was a boy, and what boy does not wish to find secret powers hidden in himself?"

"That's my cursed luck. I kill the poor."

"... [W]hen you've known me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies."

"Have you noticed that the rain stopped the instant I had a roof above me? It will start again now that I'm back out. Gods and dogs alike delight to piss on me."

"She thought she had known what it meant to be afraid, but she learned better in the storehouse beside the Gods Eye."

"When there are no battles to fight, men start to think of hearth and harvest."

"Pity filled Catelyn's heart. Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman?"

"Arya watched them die and said nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? ... There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones."

"King is only a word, but fealty, loyalty, service ... those I must have."

"That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered, while the highborn were held for ransom."

"He watched them as from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing."

"Why would the gods send a warning if we can't heed it and change what's to come?"

"Knights and lordlings, they take each other captive and pay ransoms, but they don't care if the likes of you yield or not."