A Song of Ice and Fire

"She is brave as well. She had to be, to survive the life she's lived."

"Dany stared at herself in silence. Is this the face of a conqueror? So far as she could tell, she still looked like a little girl."

"She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust."

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

"Sometimes the short road is not the safest ... Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it."

"Strangers are not so strange in a port as they are in little villages."

"The living have no place at the feasts of the dead."

"It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man."

"He wished he'd been able to think of some rousing last words. "Bugger it all" was not like to earn him much of a place in the histories."

"“Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I’ll say, ‘No, you have the wrong man, I’m a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.’” Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all."

"Outside the flakes drifted down as soft and silent as memory."

"Dawn stole into her garden like a thief."

"The gods gave me no gift but birth, and they stinted me there."

"Leave spells and prayers to priests and septons and bend your wits to learning truths a man can trust in."

"Every word was bought with pain, but that was the way of the world; a man must fight to live."

"We are born to suffer, that our sufferings might make us strong."

"Silence is a prince's friend. Words are like arrows ... once loosed, you cannot call them back."

"Girl or boy, we fight our battles ... but the gods let us choose our weapons"

"Who would cloak themselves in shame?"

"It was one thing to slay a lion; it was another to hack his paw off and leave him bewildered."

"A swordsman should be as good as his sword."

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

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

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

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

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

"In times like these, it is better to be insignificant"

"That was such a slippery word, may. In any language."

"A man cannot sup from the beggar's bowl all his life and stay a man."

"There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, that beast stirs."

"Shadows only live when given birth by the light."

"The night is dark and full of terrors, the day is bright and beautiful and full of hope."

"Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that."

"We look up at the same stars, and see such different things."

"To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow."

"You're prettier with your mouth closed."

"Somehow the laughter made her hopeful again, if only for a little while."

"All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire."

"I never dreamed how quick the sweet would turn to sour."

"There will be pain." "I'll scream." "A great deal of pain." "I'll scream very loudly."

"There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool."

"A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead."

"There is much confusion in any war."

"Men die in war, even men who are young and strong."

"These little wars are no more than a scuffle of children before what is to come."

"There is truth in the flames, but it is not always easy to see."

"Life would be much simpler if men could fuck themselves, don't you agree?"

"You call us thieves, but at least a thief has to be brave and clever and quick."

"A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

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