“I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.”

“Half of the Ullers are half-mad, the saying went, and the other half are worse.”

“And I tell you truly, Daenerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.”

“Half as big but twice as mad.”

“Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her.”

“Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.”

“A grey man,” she said. “Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?”“What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey.”“If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.”