“Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.”

“There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“A Lannister always pays his debts.”

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

“Take what you want, and pay for it.”

“The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.”