It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

More details, more devils.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen