An old septon once claimed I was living proof of the goodness of the gods. (...) Why, if the gods were cruel, they would have made me my mother’s firstborn, and Doran her third. I am a bloodthirsty ma...
All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.
A shadow on the wall, Varys murmured, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet...
A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.
A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fl...
A Lannister always pays his debts.
How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty, he replied.
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.