Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

I stayed sober for this?

Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)