Game of Thrones – Series Quotes [Season 5]

It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

There's no justice in the world. Not unless we make it.

— The powerful have always preyed on the powerless. That's how they became powerful in the first place.
— Perhaps. And perhaps we've grown so used to horror, we assume there's no other way.

Information is the key. You need to learn your enemy's strengths and strategies. You need to learn which of your friends are not your friends.

Nothing's more hateful than failing to protect the one you love.

It takes courage to admit fear.

— Are you ashamed of me, Father?
— When you were an infant, a Dornish trader landed on Dragonstone. His goods were junk except for one wooden doll. He had even sewn a dress on it in the colors of our house. No doubt he'd heard of your birth and assumed new fathers were easy targets. I still remember how you smiled when I put that doll in your cradle. How you pressed it to your cheek. By the time we burned the doll, it was too late. I was told you would die. Or worse, the greyscale would go slow. Let you grow just enough to know the world before taking it away from you. Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria to live out your short life with the stone men, before the sickness spread through the castle. I told them all to go to hell. I called in every maester on this side of the world. Every healer. Every apothecary. They stopped the disease and saved your life. Because you do not belong across the world with the bloody stone men. You are the Princess Shireen of House Baratheon. And you are my daughter.

But who needs wealth when you can make a woman laugh?

An apology doesn’t mean anything if you’re not looking the person in the eye.

Politics is the art of compromise.

We all must choose. Man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same. We choose light, or we choose darkness. We choose good, or we choose evil.

Too often, the wicked are the wealthiest, beyond the reach of justice.

— Put the pen down, dear. We both know you're not writing anything.
— Ah, yes. The famously tart-tongued Queen of Thorns.
— And the famous tart, Queen Cersei.

Everyone wants to know their future until they know their future.

— I'm terrible?
— I've heard stories.
— Why did you travel to the far side of the world to meet someone terrible?
— To see if you were the right kind of terrible.
— Which kind is that?
— The kind that prevents your people from being even more so.