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)

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

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.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.