Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

"Come at once," she had written to him. "Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once"

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.