We all dream of things we cannot have.
Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)
Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.
Tyrion wondered whether this was the last sunrise he would ever see … and whether wondering was a mark of cowardice.
Tyrion turned to his nephew. Joffrey, it is past time you called on Lord Eddard and his lady, to offer them your comfort.Joffrey looked as petulant as only a boy prince can look. What good will my com...
True knights protect the weak. He snorted. There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong ar...
To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.
Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.
They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, Ned said evenly. Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
They hate you because you act like you're better than they are
They bought clams and cockles from her, told her true tales of Braavos and lies about their lives, and laughed at the way she talked when she tried to speak Braavosi.
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.
There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me.
Theon Greyjoy had once commented that Hodor did not know much, but no one could doubt that he knew his name. Old Nan had cackled like a hen when Bran told her that, and confessed that Hodor’s real nam...
The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the cou...
The world's nothing but a mean bully, that's a fact. Even when you've big misfortunes threatening to drop on your head, small ones still take every chance to prick your toes.
The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.