George RR Martin

I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head ...

"Maybe we can save her!"

"Maybe you can. I'm not done living yet."

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in the bedchamber, poor fool.

I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivlary. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young.

Nothing says home like the smell of a dung fire burning.

"You're going to fight that?"

"I'm going to kill that."

It was not a life he'd ever dreamed of, but it was a life.

We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must ... we must do our duty, no?

"The Wall will stop them," Jon heard himself say. He turned and said it again louder. "The Wall will stop them. The Wall defends itself." Hollow words, but he needed to say them, almost as much as his brothers needed to hear them.

All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live.

An ant who hears the words of a king may not comprehend what he is saying ... If sometimes I have mistaken a warning for a prophecy, or a prophecy for a warning, the fault lies in the reader, not the book.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.