“Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.”
(Danaerys)
“Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.”
(Danaerys)
“Gorghan of Old Ghis once wrote that a prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is . . . and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams. That is the nature of prophecy, said Gorghan. Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.”
(Marwyn the Mage)
“The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.”
(Maester Aemon)
“The night is dark and full of terrors, and so are dreams.”
“There was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear.”
(Ned)
“Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.”
(Euron)
“There is no wine so sweet as wine taken from a foe.”
(Victarion)
“Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.”
(Ser Bonifer Hasty)
“Just because a man can sing about battles doesn’t mean he’s fit to fight one.”
(Sam)
“In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you’ve planned for them.”
(Littlefinger)
“A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.”
(The Kindly Man)
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.”
(Ned)
“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
(Victarion)
“What is dead can never die.”
“But rises again, harder and stronger.”
“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”
(Jon Snow)
“If there are rocks to starboard and a storm to port, a wise captain steers a third course.”
(Asha)
“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again”
(Lord Rodrick)
“If a lie was kindly meant, there was no harm in it.”
(Sansa)
“I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones.”
(Littlefinger)
“You swore that you would always love me. It is not loving to make me beg.”
(Cersei)
