Some doors are best left closed.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.