You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.

Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

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

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.