Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson. Cat.
It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.
There is a long league’s worth of difference between willful and stupid. – Tywin Lannister.
Have you ever considered that too many answers are the same as no answers at all?” – Tyrion.
It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed – Theon Greyjoy.
I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.
Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear.
I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it’s our brother she wants to marry?
The nights are too long,′ he told Missandei, ’and there is much and more to do, always.
You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.
A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, Ygritte had told him once, but no man can own both.
I am a hollow shell, the crab’s died, there’s nothing left inside. Don’t they know that?
Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” he heard is own voice saying small and far away.” And his father’s voice replied to him. “That is the only time a man can be brave.
It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly, so all he could do was fall.
The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.
It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.
I have more concern for my nephew’s welfare than for Lannister pride.
I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you into dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.
Even the truest knight cannot protect a king against himself.