When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark