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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
“We all need to be mocked from time to time, Lord Mormont, lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.
How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?” “In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden’s mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty,” he replied.
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
If life was worthless, what was death?
“I hear the grapes singing on my tongue.” “I wondered what that noise was. Tell the grapes to keep still, my head is about to split.
Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman?
Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.
“Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.”
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.”
