A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

She would show these northerners how strong a Tully of Riverrun could be.

Oh period

There must always be a Stark in Winterfell.”

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

Defiance was not a dish he tasted often.

“A woman can rule as wisely as a man,” Catelyn said.