Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.