Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes,” the Mountain declared. “Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home.

Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.