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.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.