Game of Thrones Quotes (Season 8)

You want a wh**e, buy one. You want a queen, earn her.

You think I’m a good man? I pushed a boy out a tower window, crippled him for life, for Cersei. I strangled my cousin with my own hands, just to get back to Cersei. I would have murdered every man, woman and child in Riverrun, for Cersei. She’s hateful. And so am I.[to Brienne]

That’s what death is, isn’t it? Forgetting. Being forgotten. If we forget where we’ve been and what we’ve done, we’re not men anymore. Just animals.

That’s how all the great houses started, isn’t it? With a hard bastard who was good at killing people. Kill a few hundred people, they make you a lord. Kill a few thousand, they make you king. And then all your c*cksucking grandsons can ruin the family with their c*cksucking ways.

Sometimes duty is the death of love.

A few years as Hand of the King would make anyone want to pi** off the edge of the world.

Without Littlefinger and Ramsay and the rest, I would have stayed a Little Bird all my life.

What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it.

We can’t hide behind small mercies.

The world we need won’t be built by men loyal to the world we have.

Respect is how the young keep us at a distance, so we don’t remind them of an unpleasant truth.

Men do stupid things for women.