I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

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.

What we feel is a choice.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight.

Some dream in color. We dream in scale.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

As a leader, people push you. They really want to keep pushing you until you get aggressive. Then they say, "Oh, see, it doesn't work."

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.