“Better to mock the game than to play and lose.”

“I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers.""Who was I supposed to play with?""Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?""Well enough to play.""But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.”

“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”

“It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.”

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”

“Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

“Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.”