I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you’ll never know." - Euron Greyjoy

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

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

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.