...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

What's dead may never die.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.