A Song of Ice and Fire

"The Dothraki distrusted the sea and all that moved upon it. Water that a horse could not drink was water they wanted no part of."

"You should have learned by now, none of us get the things we want."

"Sansa had not heard of Littlefinger doing anything particularly heroic during the battle, but it seemed he was to be rewarded all the same."

"Knights may keep their truces when dealing with other knights, but they are not so careful of their honor when dealing with those whom they deem outlaw."

"If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?"

"He should thank the gods that Ser Rodrik was not ironborn. The men of the green lands were made of softer stuff, though he was not certain they would prove soft enough."

"Ser Rodrik had you five-to-one." "Aye, but he thought us friends. A common mistake."

"The Bastard's backhand caught him square, and his cheekbone shattered with a sickening crunch beneath the lobstered steel. The world vanished in a red roar of pain."

"His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had."

"As shy as a maid on her wedding night, and near as fair. Sometimes a man forgets how pretty a fire can be."

"When he slept, he did not dream, not of wolves, nor his brothers, nor anything. Even dreams cannot live up here, he told himself."

"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe. Are you a man of the Night's Watch?" "Yes, but–" "There is no but. You are, or you are not."

"If you want my bones, come get them."

"Hush, now, child, I'm much older than you. I can ... die as a I please.""

"To pay for his one sweet moment, they took his whole life."

"I wonder what the High Septon would say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed against your chest?"

"I'll leave no innocents to be food for crows." "A heartless wench. Crows need to eat as well."

"A singer once said all maids are fair in silk ... but he never met you, did he?"

"The best we can hope for is to die with swords in our hands."

"It's better if he's scared of me, she told herself. That way he'll do like I say, instead of something stupid.She should be more frightened herself, she knew. She was only ten, a skinny girl on a stolen horse with a dark forest ahead of her and men behind her who would gladly cut off her feet. Yet somehow she felt calmer here than she ever had at Herrenhal."

"That was the day without a dawn. Slowly the sky brightened around them, but they never saw the sun. Black turned to grey, and colors crept timidly back into the world. The soldier pines were dressed in somber greens, the broadleafs in russets and faded golds already beginning to brown."

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

"My hirelings betray me, my friends are scourged and shamed, and I lie here rotting, Tyrion thought. I thought I won the bloody battle. Is this what triumph tastes like?"

"In the Red Keep a man did his best to hold his tongue. There were rats in the walls, and little birds who talked too much, and spiders."

"Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens."

"A dead enemy is a joy forever."

"Every lord has need of a beast from time to time."

"A good threat is often more telling than a blow."

"Thirst, hunger, exposure. These were his companions, with him every hour of every day, and he had come to think of them as his friends."

"Davos had always been a sailor; he was meant to die at sea."

"How can a father outlive so many strong young sons?"

"All he needed to do now was nothing. A few moments more, and he would be with his sons now, resting in the cool green mud of the bottom of the sea, with fish nibbling at his face."

"His refuge was no more than a speck on the charts, in a place that honest sailors steered away from, not toward."

"If there was one thing Sansa had learned here, it was mistrust."

"It made Sansa wince just to watch. They have scarcely finished burying the dead from that last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one."

"He knew how to dress and he knew how to smile and he knew how to bathe, and somehow he got the notion that this made him fit to be king."

"Once the cow's been milked there's no squeezing the cream back up her udder."

"I'm much less boring than these others. I hope that you're fond of fools."

"It is easy to mount a lion and not so easy to get off ... Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you ... All these kings would do a little bit better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers."

"I’ve never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they’re only men with the useful bits cut off."

"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than the ones with crowns."

"Courtesy is a lady's armor."

"It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it."

"They had numbers, but the Night's Watch had discipline, and in battle discipline beats numbers nine times out of ten, his father had once said."

"I only sing the songs that better men have made."

"She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well."

"A wise man never makes an enemy of a king."

"It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone."

"One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found."

"In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness."