I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.
I told them to place a table in your chambers.Who was I supposed to play with?Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?Well...
I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
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.
I never wanted to see half the things I’ve seen, and I’ve never seen half the things I wanted to.
I looked for you on the Trident, Ned said to them.We were not there, Ser Gerold answered.Woe to the Usurper if we had been, said Ser Oswell.When King's Landing fell, Ser Jaime slew your king with a go...
I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago.We all did. Once I was as young as you.
I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it.You the wine?It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as...
I had feared it from the start, from the moment you first smiled at me and let me touch your hand. My own father could not love me. Why would you if not for gold?
I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my eyes and my strength, ye...
I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest. He looked at Jaime defiantly. I will defend Kin...
I am walking, he thought, exulting. Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door.
I am a knight— So I’ve noted. Tell me—did Cersei have you knighted before or after she took you into her bed? The flicker in Lancel’s green eyes was all the admission Tyrion needed. So Varys told it t...
Hodor’s real name was Walder. No one knew where Hodor had come from, she said, but when he started saying it, they started calling him by it. It was the only word he had.
Heed the wisdom of those who love you best.
He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.
He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing. - Bran
He was not born wealthy. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But the...