“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”

“She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”

“Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation.  For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.”

“Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero...”

“There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched, but not consumed by it.”

“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.”