“No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.”

“If I am ever Hand again, the first thing I'll do is hang all the singers," said Tyrion, too loudly.”

“One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.”

“No one who wears a crown is ever safe.”

“Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.”

“Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.”

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”