Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

I stayed sober for this?

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword