Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.

I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

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

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

Nothing burns like the cold.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.