One of your northmen hit me with a morningstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse. (Tyrion)

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.