A Song of Ice and Fire

"How can you be the prince of someplace you might never see again?"

"What good is it to be a skinchanger if you can't wear the skin you like?"

"How can I help you master a gift I do not understand?"

"A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow wherever he goes."

"The crossbow is a coward's weapon." "It'll put a bolt in your heart all the same."

"It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around."

"So easy, he remembered thinking. '"A king should die harder than this.""

"What we want is not always what we get."

"The tip of his tongue ran across his lower lip like a shy pink animal."

"What of love?" "When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."

""Symon says there's to be seventy-seven courses and a hundred doves backed into a great pie," Shae gushed. "When the crust's opened they'll all burst out and fly."After which they will roost in the rafters and rain down birdshit on the guests." Tyrion had suffered such wedding pies before. The doves liked to shit on him especially, or so he had always suspected."

"There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips."

"Somehow the singing made the miles seem shorter."

"If a song makes a maid want to take off her clothes and feel the good warm sun kiss her skin, why, is that the singer's fault?"

"When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one."

"They're our horses." "Meaning you stole them yourselves, is that it? War makes thieves of many honest folk."

"It had been raining for days now, a cold grey downpour that well suited Catelyn's mood."

"How could you do this, Robb. How could you be so heedless, so stupid? How could you be so ... so ... very ... young?"

"I've made a botch of everything but the battles, haven't I?"

"A hall is no place for a wolf. He gets restless, you've seen. Growling and snapping. I should have never taken him into battle with me. He's killed far too many men to fear them now."

"I am not going to banish him just because my wolf doesn't like the way he smells"

"It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues. All that matters now is vengeance."

"I know your kneeler's knees must be itching, for want of some king to bend to."

"You know nothing, Jon Snow."

"If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller, until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it."

"Bowen knows a great deal more about counting swords than he's ever known about using them."

"When the dead walk, walls and stakes and swords mean nothing. You cannot fight the dead, Jon Snow."

"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."

"It had been so long since she had enjoyed the company of other women, she had almost forgotten how pleasant it could be."

"They are children, Sansa thought ... They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing."

"We'd been sent out by the King's Hand to deal with the outlaws, you see, but now we were the outlaws ..."

"He'd been cold for so long he was forgetting what it was like to feel warm."

"Littlefinger's gold is made from thin air, with a snap of his fingers."

"The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them."

"Through stone walls and doors, through night and rain, he still knows the smell of death and ruin."

"The north remembers."

"They stood among the trees to see the end of the night's dark dance."

"Sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing."

"This was what he was meant for; he never felt so alive as when he was fighting, with death balanced on every stroke."