Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

I can be humbler than anyone.

I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?