Small men curse what they cannot understand.
Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
It was almost worth dying to know all the trouble he’d made.
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 on in our steads.
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don’t tell me to leave.
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
