“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”

“..The secrets started when the maid told her friend, the maid next door who told her Mistres, who told the across the street neighbor and soon the tongues were wagging like flags in the wind....”

“Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally with it has lost.”

“When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.”

“Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.”

“I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)”