“Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?”

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”

“A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?”

“If he mistreated and abused his last girlfriend, why would you want to be his new girlfriend?”

“The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?""King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?""Rule," his father said curtly.”

“Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.”