A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.
No wall can keep you safe,” his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. “A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it.
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.
She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her life and never dared hope to know.
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.
All things of importance in a man’s life must be done beneath the open sky.
Hodor’s real name was Walder. No one knew where “Hodor” had come from, she said, but when he started saying it, they started calling him by it. It was the only word he had.
I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.” Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned.
Fiery peppers and strange spices heat the blood, she cannot help herself.
It’s a mercy,” he said. “He’s dead already.
There’s much to be said for taking people unawares. You never know what you might learn.
Shadow?” Davos felt his flesh prickling. “A shadow is a thing of darkness.” “You are more ignorant than a child, ser knight. There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.
The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother’s mercy but on the walls it’s the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.
Aerys Targaryen did as he liked. Has your mother ever told you what happened to him?
Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.
Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride’s father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great rush to kiss Tyrion. When the king and queen had taken their seats, the High Septon rose to lead a prayer.
The things we love destroy us every time.
Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.