People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.