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The Iron Islands lived in the past; the present was too hard and bitter to be borne.

When there are no battles to fight, men start to think of hearth and harvest.

"... [W]hen you've known me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say."

"Even the lies?"

"Especially the lies."

“Maester Luwin says there’s nothing in dreams that a man need fear.”

“There is,” said Jojen.

“What?”

“The past. The future. The truth.”

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.

Anger flashed in her brother’s lilac eyes. “Do you take me for a fool?”

The magister bowed slightly. “I take you for a king. Kings lack the caution of common men.”

Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it.

Catelyn was finding that kings do not listen half so attentively as sons.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.

Laughter is poison to fear.

It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.