"That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed."

"... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."

"It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise."

"All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion."

"They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say."

"Dreams can lie, your Grace."

"The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth."

"Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and call me Your Grace." She shrieked as Arya flung the orange across the table. It caught her in the middle of the forehead with a wet squish and plopped down into her lap."You have juice on your face, Your Grace ," Arya said."

"When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before."

"Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit."

"...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime."

"A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall."

"Silence is a prince's friend."

"The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful."

"They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die."

"Blood calls to blood."

"I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride."

"The living have no place at the feasts of the dead."

"The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground."

"In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition."

"All men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt."

"There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win."

"Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again."

"There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers."

"Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours."

"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."

"A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better."

"Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe."

"Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother."

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

"Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys."

"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish."

"The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no matter how faithful we attempt to be, some changes are inevitable. Each medium has its own demands, own restrictions, its own way of telling a story."

"She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her."

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."

"Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon," or "Look at me, I'm a wizard," or "Look at me, look at me, I'm the rain."

"A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers."

"Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall."

"Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths."

"He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."

"Dying is easy, but victory comes hard."

"It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said."

"Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons."

"Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing. When I first came to Winterfell, I was hurt whenever Ned went to the godwood to sit beneath his heart tree. Part of his soul was in that tree, I know, a part I would never share. Yet, without that part, I soon realized, he would not have been Ned. Jeyne, child, you have wed the north, as I did ... and in the north, the winters will come." She tried to smile."Be patient. Be understanding. He loves you and he needs you, and he will come back to you soon enough. This very night, perhaps. Be there when he does. That is all I can tell you."

"You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots."

"You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move."

"We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron."

"Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream."