A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

by George R.R. Martin

“A lordling down from the Trident, says your father’s men burned his keep, raped his wife, and killed all his peasants.” “I believe they call that war.”

Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk, Tyrion reflected.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

She remembered how Septa Mordane used to tell them that the Warrior and the Mother were only two faces of the same great god. But if there is only one, whose prayers will be heard?