What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

Robert wanted to be loved. My brother Tyrion has the same disease. Do you want to be loved, Sansa?” “Everyone wants to be loved.” “I see flowering hasn’t made you any brighter,” said Cersei. “Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.