Those are brave men. Let’s go kill them.
The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
Kings have no friends, only subjects and enemies.
You should have learned by now, none of us get the things we want.
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? 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…
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Valar Morghulis.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
There are no men like me. There’s only me.
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.
