A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

And who are you, the proud Lord said that I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know. In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws. And, mine are as long and sharp, my Lord as long and sharp as yours. And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that Lord of Castamere, but now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear. Yes, now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.