George RR Martin

I told you what needed to be done, and left it to you to decide what it would be ... To lead men you must know them, Jon Snow. I know more of you now than I did this morning.

Cruel lands breed cruel peoples.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't think they'll ever die for it.

“Your sons, they...they’re with the gods now.”

“Are they?” Catelyn said sharply. “What god would let this happen?”

Tyrion says that people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.

... By the time they carried her off her thighs were bloody again. It was as if her own body had betrayed her to Joffrey, unfurling a banner of Lannister crimson for all the world to see.

He thought he could smell smoke, though perhaps it was just the scent of his nerves fraying.

Your prize will be the doom of you.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

Joff had the Antler Men trussed up naked in the square below, antlers nailed to their heads. When they'd been brought before the Iron Throne for justice, he had promised to send them to Stannis. A man was not as heavy as a boulder or a cask of burning pitch, and could be thrown a deal farther.

"If she saw two futures, well ... both cannot be true."

King Stannis pointed a finger. "There you err, Onion Knight. Some lights cast more than one shadow."

Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.