There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.