In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys lose, the good guys win, the boy gets the girl and they live happily ever after. There's a million books like that and if that's the comfort you're looking for, you should read those books and not my books because that's not the kind of book that I am interested in.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?