A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

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

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

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.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. 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.