The world made no sense when a great prince died so a hedge knight might live.
Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won’t like what you’d become.
I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.
Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God’s and God’s alone.
Surely the Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me.
She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them.
The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. And those are his good points.
You haggle like a crone with a codfish.
Steel weighs more than wind.
When Edd caught sight of the ragged band of wildlings, he pursed his lips and gave the giant a long look. “Might need some butter to slide that one through the tunnel, m’lord. Shall I send someone to the larder?” “Oh, I think he’ll fit. Unbuttered.” So.
Reading books by candlelight will make you blind.
The cheese will be served when I want it served, and I want it served now.
All kneel for Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Shackles, and Mother of Dragons,” cried Missandei in her high, sweet voice.
I wait with sullen resignation,” said Tuf, unmoving.
Any man who steps between a father and his vengeance asks for death.
Come on, come on, my sweetling, the music’s still playing. Might I have this dance, my lady?
To Queen her is to kill her.
Catelyn had not eaten today. Perhaps that had been unwise. She told herself that there had been no time, but the truth was that food had lost its savor in a world without Ned. ‘When they took his head off, they killed me too.
The Queen Who Never Was; what did Viserys ever have that she did not? A little sausage? Is that all it takes to be a king? Let Mushroom rule, then. My sausage is thrice the size of his.
Take me away, take me to the land of always-winter.