I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

"Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once"

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.