If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

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

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.