And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

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.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

There are no men like me. There's only me

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Believe in everything, just in case.

There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

It was dizzying—cause and effect, round and round, stretching back to the source.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.