Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

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

Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.