I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.