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

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

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

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.