Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.