“His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.”
“If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.”
“The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.”
“No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.”
“Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...”