All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me.

What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.