We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Can they love without a word for it?

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.