“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

“Laughter is poison to fear.”

“She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.”

“I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.”

“I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they were me, and I was Union, and for a single solitary glittering instant I was ...”

“I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart...”

“Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.”

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”

“The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.”

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“Power is a curious thing. Who lives, Who dies. Power resides where men believe it resides. It is a trick, A shadow on the wall.”

“I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough incentive.”

“There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”