Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?
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.
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.
We all dream of things we cannot have.
War makes thieves of many honest folk.
War makes monsters of us all.
Valar Morghulis.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.
There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
