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

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.