George RR Martin

"I'll leave no innocents to be food for crows."

"A heartless wench. Crows need to eat as well."

It's better if he's scared of me, she told herself. That way he'll do like I say, instead of something stupid.She should be more frightened herself, she knew. She was only ten, a skinny girl on a stolen horse with a dark forest ahead of her and men behind her who would gladly cut off her feet. Yet somehow she felt calmer here than she ever had at Herrenhal.

It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it.

Every lord has need of a beast from time to time.

Hush, now, child, I'm much older than you. I can ... die as a I please."

To pay for his one sweet moment, they took his whole life.

Strange times are bad for trade.

A dead enemy is a joy forever.

It made Sansa wince just to watch. They have scarcely finished burying the dead from that last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.

If you want my bones, come get them.

My hirelings betray me, my friends are scourged and shamed, and I lie here rotting, Tyrion thought. I thought I won the bloody battle. Is this what triumph tastes like?

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.