His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's