
1
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.George R.r. Martin

2
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.George R.r. Martin
3
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.George R.r. Martin
4
How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows..they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.George R.r. Martin
5
I know I want you, " he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them. He had been in her half a hundred times by now, but always beneath furs, with others all around them. He had never seeen how beautiful she was. Her legs were skinny and well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. Does that make it even luckier? He pulled her close. "I love the smell of you, " he said. "I love your red hair. I love your mouth, and the way you kiss me. I love your smile. I love your teats." He kissed them, one and then the other. "I love your skinny legs, and what's between them." He knelt to kiss her there, lightly on her mound at first, but Ygritte moved her legs apart a little, and he saw the pink inside and kissed that as well, and tasted her. She gave a little gasp. "If you love me all so much, why are you still dressed?" she whispered. "You know nothing, Jon Snow. Noth---oh. Oh. OHHH."Afterward, she was almost shy, or as shy as Ygritte ever got. "The thing you did, " she said, when they lay together on their piled clothes. "With your..mouth." She hesistated. "Is that..is it what lordss do to their ladies, down in the south?"" I don't think so." No one had ever told Jon just what lords did with their ladies. "I only..wanted to kiss you there, that's all. You seemed to like it."" Aye. I..I liked it some. No one taught you such?"" There's been no one, " he confessed. "Only you.George R.r. Martin

6
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.George R.r. Martin

7
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.George R.r. Martin
8
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)George R.r. Martin

9
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.George R.r. Martin

10
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.George R.r. Martin

11
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.George R.r. Martin
12
You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister.""Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure."" I don't even know who my mother was, " Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.George R.r. Martin

13
If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - AryaGeorge R.r. Martin

14
...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?""In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty, " he replied.George R.r. Martin
15
Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.George R.r. Martin
16
Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys, " he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.George R.r. Martin

17
Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya StarkGeorge R.r. Martin
18
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.George R.r. Martin

19
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.George R.r. Martin

20
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.George R.r. Martin