His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

Wine makes all things possible.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.