“If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.”

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”

“But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,He taught and first he followed it himself.”

“‎[Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you."[Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice."Page 58”

“I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.”

“If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love vanishes.”