Fear cuts deeper than swords.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
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.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
Every flight begins with a fall.
Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure.
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
Better to mock the game than to play and lose.
