George RR Martin

"Symon says there's to be seventy-seven courses and a hundred doves backed into a great pie," Shae gushed. "When the crust's opened they'll all burst out and fly."After which they will roost in the rafters and rain down birdshit on the guests." Tyrion had suffered such wedding pies before. The doves liked to shit on him especially, or so he had always suspected.

There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.

We'd been sent out by the King's Hand to deal with the outlaws, you see, but now we were the outlaws ...

He'd been cold for so long he was forgetting what it was like to feel warm.

You're prettier with your mouth closed.

Somehow the singing made the miles seem shorter.

A fat man always sits comfortably, I am thinking, for he takes his pillow wherever he goes.

I've made a botch of everything but the battles, haven't I?

It was easy to lose your way beyond the Wall. Jon did not know that he could tell honor from shame anymore, or right from wrong.

"The crossbow is a coward's weapon."

"It'll put a bolt in your heart all the same."

Sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing.

It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues. All that matters now is vengeance.