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.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.