For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.