“When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.”

“When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?”

“She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.”

“They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis”

“Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt.”

“His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh”

“Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk.And losing battles too.”