George RR Martin

We live closer to the green in our bogs and crannogs, and we remember Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.

Most days, she spent more time with the dead than the living.'

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

Yes and no ... can go a long way once you find the right questions.

No man has ever died from bending his knee ... He who kneels may rise again, blade in hand. He who will not kneel stays dead. He who will not kneel stays dead, stiff legs and all.

A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.

"You have to be careful around big people. Be jolly and playful with them, keep them smiling, make them laugh, that's what my father always said. Didn't your father ever tell you how to act with big people?"

"My father called them smallfolk," said Tyrion, "and he was not what you'd call a jolly man."

Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you.

Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you're dying.

What good is peace if it must be purchased with the blood of little children?

When the choice is debt or death, best to borrow.

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever exist.