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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
  -- Oath of the Night's Watch
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When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
  -- Cersei Lannister
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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
  -- Eddard Stark
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What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.
  -- Aeron Damphair
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There are no men like me. There's only me.
  -- Jaime Lannister
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Never forget who you are, for surely the world won’t. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.
  -- Jorah Mormont
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Bran: "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"
Eddard: "That is the only time a man can be brave."
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"The things I do for love."
  -- Jaime Lannister
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Qyburn: "There will be pain."
Jaime: "I'll scream."
Qyburn: "A great deal of pain."
Jaime: "I'll scream very loudly."
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That's no law, just a sword. Happens I got one, too.
  -- Yoren
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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
  -- Ygritte
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First lesson. Stick them with the pointy end.
  -- Jon Snow, to Arya Stark
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Men call me Darkstar, and I am of the night.
  -- Gerold Dayne, to Myrcella Baratheon
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If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
  -- Eddard Stark
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Oak and iron guard me well, or else I'm dead and doomed to hell.
  -- Ser Duncan the Tall
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We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
  -- Myrcella Baratheon
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Jon: "I don't know who my mother was."
Tyrion: "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are."
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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
  -- Rodrik "The Reader" Harlaw
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There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
  -- Varys
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Laws are a tedious business and counting coppers is worse.
  -- Robert Baratheon
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Those are brave men. Let's go kill them.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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The gall of them, fighting back!
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean.
  -- Petyr Baelish
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Valor is a poor substitute for numbers.
  -- Doran Martell
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A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
  -- Petyr Baelish
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The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - 'the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does HE get more worms than I do...'
  -- "Dolorous" Edd Tollett
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Do you have any notion what happens when a city is sacked, Sansa? No, you wouldn’t, would you? All you know of life you learned from singers, and there is such a dearth of good sacking songs.
  -- Cersei Lannister
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You may well have the better claim, but I have the larger army.
  -- Renly Baratheon
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Once they figure a way to work a dead horse, we'll be next. Likely I'll be the first too. 'Edd,' they'll say, 'dying's no excuse for laying down no more, so get on up and take this spear, you've got first watch tonight.' Well, I shouldn't be so gloomy. Might be I'll die before they work it out.
  -- "Dolorous" Edd Tollett
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Amerei Frey: "Father had only gone out to ransom Petyr Pimple. He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway."
Mariya Darry: "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry."
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We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed. Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expect?
  -- "Dolorous" Edd Tollett
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I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.
  -- Jaime Lannister
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There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don't ever believe any different.
  -- Sandor Clegane
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There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.
  -- Theon Greyjoy
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Is there gold hidden in the village? Is there silver? Gems? Is there food? Where is Lord Beric? Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? Is there gold in the village?
  -- Arya Stark, stabbing in rhythm
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Lommy: "What if the wolves come?"
Arya: "Yield"
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In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.
  -- Tyrion Lannister to Sansa Stark, on the night of their marriage
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A girl should be bloody too. This is her work.
  -- Jaqen H'ghar to Arya Stark
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Vengeance. Justice. Fire and Blood.
  -- Doran Martell
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Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
  -- Varys, to Eddard Stark
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You tell him this, m'lord. You tell him he's bound on marching the wrong way. It's north he should be taking his swords. North, not south. You hear me?
  -- Osha
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The king eats, they say, and the Hand takes the shit.
  -- Robert Baratheon
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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You feed your dog bones under the table, you do not seat him beside you on the high bench.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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Mummers and monkeys require applause. So did Aerys, for that matter.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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This is how you start a war. Not with a crown of gold, but with a blade of steel.
  -- Gerold Dayne
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Better to mock the game than to play and lose.
  -- Genna Lannister
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Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.
  -- Genna Lannister
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Words are wind.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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Dreams are what we have.
  -- Jojen Reed
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Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
  -- Maester Aemon, to Jon Snow
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No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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Kings and corpses always draw attendants
  -- Davos Seaworth
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
  -- Jojen Reed, to Bran Stark
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A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.
  -- Brynden Rivers, to Bran Stark
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Never fear the darkness, Bran. The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
  -- Brynden Rivers, to Bran Stark
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Qarth wants no khalasars seething round our walls. The stench of all those horses ... meaning no offense, Khaleesi."
  -- Xaro Xhoan Daxos
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If I could pray with my cock, I would be much more religious.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air, and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
  -- Barristan Selmy
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It all goes back and back, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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The Red Viper: "Do you know who I am?"
Gregor Clegane: "Some dead man."
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I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.
  -- Jaime Lannister
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If your enemy defies you, serve him steel and fire. But if he bends the knee, you must help him back to his feet, else no man will ever kneel to you.
  -- Tywin Lannister
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Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be a weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
  -- Tyrion Lannister, to Jon Snow
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In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.
  -- Petyr Baelish
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Fear cuts deeper than swords.
  -- Syrio Florel
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Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
  -- Cersei Lannister
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Tyrion: "I am sorry for your loss as well, Joffrey."
Joffrey: "What loss?"
Tyrion: "Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you."
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Jaime: "Even if the boy does live, he will be a cripple. Worse than a cripple. A grotesque. Give me a good clean death."
Tyrion: "Speaking for the grotesques, I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."
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Why should a man humble himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him?
  -- Theon Greyjoy
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I did warn you not to trust me, you know.
  -- Petyr Baelish, to Eddard Stark
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All dwarves may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarves.
  -- Tyrion Lannister
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[He] pronounced it admirable. Doubtless if I showed him the content of my privy, he would pronounce it admirable as well.
  -- Jaime Lannister
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We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem…but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.
  -- Maester Luwin
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My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
  -- Arienne Martell
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A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
  -- Stannis Baratheon
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"As High as Honor"
  -- Arryn words
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"Ours is the Fury"
  -- Baratheon words
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"We Do Not Sow"
  -- Greyjoy words
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"Hear Me Roar"
  -- Lannister words
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"Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"
  -- Martell words
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"Winter Is Coming"
  -- Stark words
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"Fire and Blood"
  -- Targaryen words
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"Family, Duty, Honor"
  -- Tully words
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"Growing Strong"
  -- Tyrell words
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[Power is] a shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
  -- Varys
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Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
  -- Maester Aemon
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Life is not a song, sweetling. You'll learn that one day to your sorrow.
  -- Petyr Baelish
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Meryn Trant: "You are quick, for a dancing master."
Syrio Forel: "You are slow, for a knight."
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Renly: "You'll be pleased to learn she came to me a maid."
Stannis: "In your bed, she's like to die that way."