Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

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.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

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

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.