she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

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

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.