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"“He’ll want what kings always want,” she said. “Homage.”"
"My first rule of war, Cat—never give the enemy his wish."
"Can a whore truly love anyone, I wonder?"
"Through stone walls and doors, through night and rain, he still knows the smell of death and ruin."
"When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince."
"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."
"Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward."
"Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"
"“I’ll have the boy.” ... “You’ll have no one,” Yoren said stubbornly. “There’s laws on such things.” The gold cloak drew a shortsword. “Here’s your law.” Yoren looked at the blade. “That’s no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.”"
"The world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."
"Catelyn was finding that kings do not listen half so attentively as sons."
"This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings"
"Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible, and red."
"The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them."
"The north remembers."
"In life, the monsters win."
"A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose."
"Wherever you have a camp, you are certain to have camp followers."
"Tell me, Lord Eddard ... why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?"
"He'd been cold for so long he was forgetting what it was like to feel warm."
"A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse."
"There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man."
"For fifteen years I protected him from his enemies, but I could not protect him from his friends."
"“You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.”"
"You wear your honor like a suit of armor, Stark. You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move."
"Laughter is poison to fear."
"I'm terrified of my enemies, so I kill them all."
"So many kings, my tongue grows weary of the word."
"We'd been sent out by the King's Hand to deal with the outlaws, you see, but now we were the outlaws ..."
"What strange fit of madness led you to tell the queen that you had learned the secret of Joffrey's birth?" "The madness of mercy."
"Littlefinger's gold is made from thin air, with a snap of his fingers."
"Some commands are more easily given than obeyed."
"It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow."
"The Watch needs good men" he told them as they set out, "but you lot will have to do."
"They stood among the trees to see the end of the night's dark dance."
"“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”"
"I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it."
"Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off."
"Know the men who follow you, and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger."
"Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter."
"They hate me because I'm better than they are" "No. They hate you because you act like you're better than they are."
"A true man does what he will, not what he must."
"Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore."
"It was easy to lose your way beyond the Wall. Jon did not know that he could tell honor from shame anymore, or right from wrong."
"Valar morghulis."
"Valar dohaeris."
"The cold winds are rising."
"Our Blades Are Sharp"
"He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise."
"As High As Honor"