a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.