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“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.” – Oath of the
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." –
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." –
"What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger." –
"There are no men like me. There's only me." –
"He named you Protector of the Realm." – "He did." – "She wont care. Give me an hour and I could put a hundred swords at your command." – "And what should I do with a hundred swords?" – "Strike! Tonight, while the castle sleeps. We must get
away from his mother and into our custody. Protector of the Realm or no, he who holds the king holds the kingdom. Every moment you delay gives
another moment to prepare. By the time
dies it will be too late for the both of us." –
fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.
"Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" – "That is the only time a man can be brave." –
"The things I do for love." –
“There will be pain.” –
“I’ll scream.” –
“A great deal of pain.” –
“I’ll scream very loudly.” –
“Here’s your law.” –
soldier, drawing out a shortsword“That’s no law, just a sword. Happens I got one, too.” –
"You know nothing, ." –
did not, in the end, shit gold.
"First Lesson. Stick them with the pointy end." –
"Men call me Darkstar, and I am of the night." –
"If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die." –
"The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." –
"The whole of the realm denies it, brother. Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in
and they deny it on the . No one wants you for their king. Sorry." –
"Oak and iron guard me well, or else I'm dead and doomed to hell." – Ser
"We're children. We're supposed to be childish." –
"Do you even know what honor is?" –
to A horse. –
to himself
“I don’t know who my mother was.” – “Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are.” –
"I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." –
"There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man." –
"Laws are a tedious business and counting coppers is worse." –
“Those are brave men. Let’s go kill them.” –
“The gall of them, fighting back!” –
"Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." –
"Valor is a poor substitute for numbers." –
"A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever." –
"The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints – 'the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...'" –
"Do you have any notion what happens when a city is sacked, ? No, you wouldn’t, would you? All you know of life you learned from singers, and there is such a dearth of good sacking songs." –
" may well have the better claim, but I have the larger army." –
"Once they figure a way to work a dead horse, we'll be next. Likely I'll be the first too. 'Edd,' they'll say, 'dying's no excuse for laying down no more, so get on up and take this spear, you've got first watch tonight.' Well, I shouldn't be so gloomy. Might be I'll die before they work it out." –
" had only gone out to ransom . He brought them the gold they asked for, but
hung him anyway." – "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry." –
In his chainmail shirt with a sword in his hand,
looked almost a man grown, and dangerous.
looked like Hot Pie.
"We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed. Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expect?" –
"I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act." –
“Don’t kill him here!” – , regarding Tyrion“Don’t kill him anywhere.” – , regarding himself
"There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don't ever believe any different." –
"There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather." –
"Is there gold hidden in the village? Is there silver? Gems? Is there food? Where is ? Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? Is there gold in the village?" – , stabbing in rhythm
"What if the wolves come?" – "Yield." –
"Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, gods made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air... I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers, and shed the blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I have heard the prayers, in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden love me, grant me a healthy son. Save me, succor me, make me wealthy... protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, protect me from the crabs inside my belly, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the
at my door. Protect me from the ." He laughed. "Godless? Why, , I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From
to , when men see my sails, they pray." –
“Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the
come to kill me, I’ll say, ‘No, you have the wrong man, I’m a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.’” – , when suggested by
to take another name
“In the dark, I am the .” –
to , on the night of their marriage
"A girl should be bloody too. This is her work." –
at the battle inside
"Careful with those, you don't want to get blood all over those pretty white cloaks." –
to the , when
from 's cruelty
“Men are such faithless creatures.” –
“Who’s the traitor today?” – “So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with our fathers?” – “ is not dead yet.” –
"Vengeance. Justice. Fire and Blood." –
"Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?" – , to
"You tell him this, m'lord. You tell him he's bound on marching the wrong way. It's north he should be taking his swords. North, not south. You hear me?" – , to , regarding .
"You know the saying about the ?" – "What the
dreams, the Hand builds." – "I bedded a fishmaid once who told me the lowborn have a choicer way to put it. The king eats, they say and the Hand takes the shit." –
"Winter is Coming." – The words of
"And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." –
"My mind is my weapon.
has his sword,
has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." –
"You feed your dog bones under the table, you do not seat him beside you on the high bench." –
"Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens." –
"Mummers and monkeys require applause. So did , for that matter." –
"There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool." –
"And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all." –
"You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night." –
"This is how you start a war. Not with a crown of gold, but with a blade of steel." –
"Better to mock the game than to play and lose." –
"Men are such thundering great fools. ." –
"Words are wind." –
"Dreams are what we have." –
"Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born." –
"No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise." –
"Kings and corpses always draw attendants" –
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." –
"A man must know how to look before he can hope to see." –
"Never fear the darkness, Bran. The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong." –
" wants no
seething round our walls. The stench of all those horses… meaning no offense, ." – , to
"If I could pray with my cock, I would be much more religious." –
once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. every time a new
is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air, and the world holds its breath to see how it will land." –
It all goes back and back, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads. –
"All you have I gave you. You would do well to remember that, bastard. As for this... Reek... if you have not ruined him beyond redemption, he may yet be of some use to us. Get the keys and remove those chains from him, before you make me rue the day I raped your mother." – , to
"Do you know who I am?" – "Some dead man." –
"I shall wear this as a badge of honor." – "Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again." –
"I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health." –
", when your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you." –
"We all need to be mocked from time to time, , lest we start to take ourselves too seriously." –
"Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." –
"So young. Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had
lived, he would have grown up to be a ." –
"In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them." –
"Should I explain to you the meaning of a closed door in a whorehouse?" –
“? Egg, I dreamed that I was old.” –
"So I will only ask you once, . Are you a brother of the , or a bastard boy who wants to play at war?" –
Reek. Reek. It rhymes with leek. –
"That sea is colder than a maid and crueler than a whore." –
" wants to see me?" – "As to that I could not say. I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same. Lord Jon wishes to speak with you as soon as he is done with 's wife." –
"Bring us 's head, and I know His Grace will be most grateful.
may have liked the man, but
was always afraid of him... with good reason it would seem." – "When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master." –
"The king is my son!" – "Aye, and from what I saw of , you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler." –
"My wants do not matter. It may be that the
has led you here to be his instrument, but when I look at you I see a child... and worse a girl child. Many have served Him of Many Faces through the centuries, but only a few of His servants have been women. Women bring life into the world. We bring the gift of death. No one can do both." –
of the , to
“As for my household, they love me well. None would betray me." – , to TyrionCherish that thought, my fat friend. One day we will carve those words upon your crypt. – , to himself
I should be with them… but no, I had to have a whore. Kinslaying was not enough, I needed a cunt and wine to seal my ruin, and here I am on the wrong side of the world, wearing a slave collar with little golden bells to announce my coming. If I dance just right, maybe I can ring "."
– , contemplating his sorry state of affairs in .
"Only cowards dress in iron." – "This coward is about to kill you, ser." The man was no knight, but his courage had earned him that much courtesy. –
"In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which." –
They chanted in , but Tyrion had heard the prayers enough to grasp the essence. Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more. –
“Her name is Brienne. Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?” –
“Yes.” –
“Oh, good. I only rescue maidens.” –
“Is Yezzan going to die?” –
“We are all going to die.” –
“He has a song. He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire. There must be one more. The dragon has three heads.” –
“Power resides where men believe it resides… It’s a trick… A shadow on the wall… And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.” –
“You raped her. You murdered her. You killed her children.” – , accusing
of his sister ’s murder
Fear cuts deeper than swords. – Arya Stark
Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before
cut ’s head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them. –
“Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. When I first came to , I was hurt whenever
went to the
to sit beneath his . Part of his soul was in that tree, I knew, a part I would never share. Yet without that part, I soon realized, he would not have been Ned. , child, you have wed the , as I did... and in the north, the winters will come.” –
“Art is not a democracy. People don’t get to vote on how it ends.” –
“The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. To me at least, who gave it to you.” – , to
“An ant who hears the words of a king may not comprehend what he is saying, and all men are ants before the fiery face of . If sometimes I have mistaken a warning for a prophecy or a prophecy for a warning, the fault lies in the reader, not the book." – , to
“I have need of every man who knows which end of the spear to stab into the .” – “The pointy end.” Jon had told
something like that once, he remembered. –
“There’s no shame in fear,
told me, what matters is how we face it." –
“I dream of it sometimes. Of ’s dying. A green tent, candles, a woman screaming. And blood. I was still abed when he died. Your
will tell you. He tried to wake me. Dawn was nigh and my lords were waiting, fretting. I should have been ahorse, armored. I knew Renly would attack at break of day. Devan says I thrashed and cried out, but what does it matter? It was a dream. I was in my tent when Renly died, and when I woke my hands were clean.” – , to
“Why should I wish
dead? I had no motive. Besides, I am a thousand leagues away in the . Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” – “What... what game?” – “The only game. The game of thrones.” –
"Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths." –
“It was a hard thing young
asked of me. When
was chosen, I told myself, ‘No matter, he has been longer on the
than you have, your time will come.’ When it was , I thought, ‘He is strong and fierce, but he is old, your time may yet come.’ But you are half a boy, Lord Snow, and now I must return to the
knowing that my time will never come. Do not make me die regretful.
was a great man.
as well. I shall expect full as much of you.” – , to
“I am a man. I am kind to , but I have known other women. I have tried to be a father to my sons, to help make them a place in this world. Aye, I’ve broken laws, but I never felt evil until tonight. I would say my parts are mixed, m’lady. Good and bad.” – , to
Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of , and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman’s name... – One of 's visions in the
had only the vaguest memory of
from his time with . A callow youth, always smiling, it was hard to imagine him as Lord of . The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark.
"Gentle Mother, font of mercy, save our sons from war, we pray, stay the swords and stay the arrows, let them know a better day. Gentle Mother, strength of women, help our daughters through this fray, soothe the wrath and tame the fury, teach us all a kinder way." – A prayer to the Mother
"Justice. I remember justice. It had a pleasant taste. Justice was what we were about when
led us, or so we told ourselves. We were king's men, knights, and heroes... but some knights are dark and full of terrors, my lady. War makes monsters of us all." –
"The more you give a king, the more he wants." –
"This isn't the bloody line of succession. That didn't matter when you rebelled against the mad king, it shouldn't matter now. What's best for the kingdoms, what's best for the people we rule? We all know what Stannis is - he inspires no love or loyalty. He's not a king. I am." – "Stannis is a commander. He's led men into war, twice. He destroyed the Greyjoy fleet." – "Yes he's a good soldier, everyone knows that. So was Robert. Tell me something, do you still believe good soldiers make good kings?" –
"Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off." –
Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I should have died with him. –
"You swore a vow to guard the king, not to judge him." – , to
“Not that I would trust it.
once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is . . . and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of , said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.” – Archmaester
"And when I die, please let them bury with me a crossbow, so I can thank the Father Above for his gifts the same way I thanked the Father Below." -
“Where is your father?” –
“Gone. We quarreled. Will you pray with me, Jaime?” –
“If I pray nicely, will the Father give me a new hand?” –
“No. But the Warrior will give you courage, the Smith will lend you strength, and the Crone will give you wisdom.” –
“It's a hand I need.” –
“He died during the , of an excess of gallantry and an axe.” –
“You drink a deal of wine for such a little man.” -
“Kinslaying is dry work. It gives a man a thirst.” -
“There are those in Westeros who would say that killing Lord Lannister was merely a good beginning.” -
“They had best not say it in my sister’s hearing, or they will find themselves short a tongue. And you had best be careful what you say of my family, magister. Kinslayer or no, I am a lion still.” -
“You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles. I can take you to a real lion, my little friend. The prince keeps a pride in his menagerie. Would you like to share a cage with them?” -
“Man wants to be the king o' rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.” -
“Three corns and one roast raven. Very good, m’lord, only Hobb’s made boiled eggs, black sausage, and apples stewed with prunes. The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes. I won’t eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chestnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They’ll prune you when you least expect it.” -
“The three triarchs are chosen from amongst those noble families who can prove unbroken descent from old Valyria, to serve until the first day of the new year. And you would know all this if you had troubled to read the book that Maester Kedry gave you.” —
“It had no pictures.” —
“There were maps.” —
“Maps do not count. If he had told me it was about tigers and elephants, I might have given it a try. It looked suspiciously like a history. —
“King Robert was well loved, and most men still accept that Tommen is his son. The more they see of Lord Stannis the less they love him, and fewer still are fond of Lady Melisandre with her fires and this grim red god of hers. They complain.” —
“They complained about Lord Commander Mormont too. Men love to complain about their wives and lords, he told me once. Those without wives complain twice as much about their lords.” —
“Perhaps your elephants would sooner be nightingales. Instead of sweet song, Meereen’s nights would be filled with thunderous trumpetings, and your trees would shatter beneath the weight of great grey birds.” —
“Careful of the rats, my lord. They make an awful squeal if you step on them. My mother used to make a similar sound when I was a boy. She must have had some rat in her, now that I think of it. Brown hair, beady little eyes, liked cheese. Might be she had a tail too, I never looked to see.” —
"Why shouldn't
rule ourselves again? It was the
we married, and the dragons are all dead! There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords. !" –
"A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is." -
"The winters are hard, but the
will endure. We always have." -
"They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death. Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor." -
"Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." -
"If a girl can't fight, why should she have a coat of arms?" -
"Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords, but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister." -
"I should have thought that heat ill suits you . Here in the south, they say you are all made of ice, and melt when you ride below ." -
"Oh, I think that Lord Tyrion is quite a large man. I think he is a giant come among us, here at the end of the world." -
"I've been called many things, my lord, but giant is seldom one of them." -
"Nonetheless, I think it is true." -
"You are too kind, Maester Aemon." -
"I have been called many things, my lord, but kind is seldom one of them." -
"The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are." -
"Get out. Monster, monster, get out, get out, GET OUT!" -
"You have lived too long, nuncle." - Prince
"On that much we agree." - Prince
"An eye for an eye, a son for a son.
shall be avenged." - Prince
"Which one you want t' lose, Your Grace?" -
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