If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.

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)