There is no limit to Lannister pride or Lannister ambition,” Catelyn.
Sometimes she felt as though her heart had turned to stone;.
Whoever Jon’s mother had been, Ned must have loved her fiercely, for nothing Catelyn said would persuade him to send the boy away.
It’s death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.
He was old enough to know that it was not truly him they shouted for – it was the harvest they cheered, it was Robb and his victories, it was his lord father and his grandfather and all the Starks going back eight thousand years.
How could I ever have loved that wretched creature?
Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.
Arya leaned close and whispered, “Chiswyck,” right in Jaqen’s ear.
That was what men wanted, wasn’t it? Soft helpless women that they needed to protect?
Mother could be fiercer than the Warrior when her children are in danger.
Lannister studied his face. “Yes,” he said. “I can see it. You have more of the north in you than your brothers.
It was not as good as riding Dancer, but there were places Dancer could not go, and this did not shame Bran the way it did when Hodor carried him in his arms like a baby. Hodor seemed to like it too, though with Hodor it was hard to tell. The only tricky part was doors. Sometimes Hodor forgot that he had Bran on his back, and that could be painful when he went through a door.
Savage Sam Tarly, whose sword, Heartsbane, was said to be red from hilt to point after the dozens of Dornishmen he cut down in the course of the Vulture Hunt, as the chase after the Vulture King became known.
Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.
Viserys says he could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers.” Ser Jorah snorted. “Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.
I did not come here to eat fruit.” Stannis was fuming.
Her brother Rhaegar battling the Usurper in the bloody waters of the Trident and dying for the woman he loved.
No life was certain.
Tyrion Lannister knew the maps as well as anyone, but a fortnight on the wild track that passed for the kingsroad up here.
My uncle Maegor was cruel,” Alysanne was heard to say, “but age is crueler.