Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

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

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.