1. Courage and folly are cousins. #Tyrion #Littlefinger
2. Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them. #Tyrion #Cersei #Joffery
3. Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. #Tyrion #Cersei
4. Something Cersei will never expect, I’ll do … justice. #Tyrion #Shae
5. There’s no shame in fear, what matters is how we face it. #Jon #Sam
6. Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust. #Smith #JOn #Robert
7. Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He’ll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he’s copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day. #Noye(BlackSmith) #JOn #Robert #Renly
8. King, an easy word to say, an easy word to like. #Mormont #Jon
9. Power resides where menbelieve it resides. No more and no less. It’s a shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. #Varys #Tyrion
10. Boys believe nothing can hurt them, grown men know better. #Theon
11. When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’ re only telling the world that you fear what he might say. #Tyrion #Cersei
12. The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It’s the ones who look innocent I need to beware. #Tyrion
13. Titles can be as dangerous as names. #Tyrion
14. If I could pray with my cock, I’d be much more religious. #Tyrion #Chataya
15. “Lord Varys, sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King’s Landing, and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy.” “How odd. I think quite the same of you.” #Tyrion #Varys
16. Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger. #Hound #Sansa
17. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he’ll look you straight in the face. #Hound #Sansa
18. That was the way of war. The smallfolk were slaughtered, while the highborn were held for ransom. #Tyrion
19. I should have been born a man. I would have no need of any of you then. None of this would have been allowed to happen. #Cersei #Tyrion
20. The only way to defeat my sister is to play her own game, and that was something the Lords Stark and Arryn would never do. #Tyrion #Cersei
21. If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first? #Stannis #Catelyn
22. Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. #Tyrion #Sansa
23. Too many answers are the same as no answer at all? #Varys #Cersei
24. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow. #Unknown woman #Danny
25. Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them pure cold water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes. #Stannis #Davos
26. There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows. #Melisandre #Davos
27. There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave. #Tyrion
28. Children are a battle of a different sort. A battle without banners or warhorns, but no less fierce. #Catelyn #Brienne
29. As hard as birth can be, what comes after is even harder. At times I feel as though I am being torn apart. #Catelyn #Brienne
30. Three fires must you light, one for life and one for death and one to love. Three mounts must you ride, one to bed and one to dread and one to love. Three treasons will you know, once for blood and once for gold and once for love. #Danny
31. Mercy, ther’s a bloody trap. Too much and they call you weak, too little and you’re monstrous. #Theon
32. The mountain is your mother. Cling to her, press your face up against her teats, and she won’t drop you. #Stonesnake #Jon
33. If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with. #Hound #Sansa
34. There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different. #Hound #Sansa
35. A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all. #Cersei #Sansa
36. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same. #Cersei #Sansa
37. To lead men you must know them. #Qhorin #Jon
38. Tears, the woman’s weapon. The man’s weapon is a sword. Tears are not a woman’s only weapon. You’ve got another one between your legs, and you’d best learn to use it. You’ll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords. #Cersei #Sansa
39. Love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear. #Sansa
40. It’s one thing to go into battle surrounded by friends, and another to perish alone and despised. #Theon
41. Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe. #Qhorin #Jon