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

by George R.R. Martin

“My mother told me that dead men sing no songs,”

“Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead.”

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.” “A different time,” Maester Luwin said. “A different king.”

If she did marry Prince Joff, Arya hoped for his sake that he had a good steward.