The longer Cersei waits, the angrier she'll become, and anger makes her stupid. I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.
The crow calls the raven black.
The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you’ll never know. - Euron Greyjoy
The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.
The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
The battle proved a victory—at least in part—and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine...
The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing e...
The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. If that’s true, Lord Eddard, tell me… why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
Thank you for your many lessons Lord Baelish. I will never forget them.
Thank the Good Master for his patient kindness, Dany said, and tell him that I will think on all I learned here. She gave her arm to Arstan Whitebeard, to lead her back across the plaza to her litter....
Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn...
Spare me your empty little compliments, girl.... and you ser's. I am no knight. I spit on them and their vows.
Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner. - Tyrion
Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn
Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters … and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black...
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.
Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.
Some were bound to me by vows and some by blood, but they were all my brothers.
Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.
Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share with those you love and Trust Ned Stark