Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

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

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

A lukewarm heart cannot perform boiling hot worship! Heat up our hearts for God and the temperature of our worship will increase!

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.