What are the best quotes/lines in the book?

[J_Targ]

Just caught this in my re-read of ASoS:

"Lord Umber," said Robb, "this one was only the watcher. Hang him last, so he may watch the others die."

How B.A.

[Nuncle Kraken]

The speech Manderly's grandaughter gives about the wolf den and the Starks letting them settle in the north...I tear up every time.

[The Fallen]

` I'm also re-reading ASoS and thought this was funny. I also missed it the first time around.

Bran and company are at the Queenscrown when a big thunderstorm hits and Hodor goes berserk. Bran says "... No more stupid hodoring. Sit down."

[Mad Madam Mim]

"saphhires!"

aww bless him

[The BlackBear]

'In the hall of kings, the goat sits alone and fevered as the great dog descends on him.'

Fucking horrific image.

[Corvo Attano]

Thappheirth.

[Boy and Girl Wadish]

Cersei: "How do you distinguish one High Septon from another?"

GM Pycelle: "With difficulty. One has to say 'the fat one', 'the one before the fat one', or 'the old one who died in his sleep'.

"It is a good thing I thrive on chaos."

- Littlefinger

[Jon Stone]

'In his chain mail shirt with sword in hand, Gendry looked almost a man grown, and dangerous. Hot Pie looked like Hot Pie

[Paralyze7]

I forgot to use the search feature...

[we need a facepalm smilie]

Isn't the idea that you need to search for all questions before posting them contradictory to the idea of what a forum is? New posts, new members, new discussions... if people feel it's a tired topic they can pass on commenting (though I know they'll sooner comment and whine). ;-)

[Rheagar Prime]

woe to the usurper- ser osell whent

don't make me rue the day i raped your mother- roose bolton

i'm gonna kill that- oberyn martell

go thing he died then he would have grown up to be a frey- manderly

no man is free only children and fools believe otherwise- tywin lannister

when you play the game of thrones you win or you die- cersei

[jentario]

I cannot believe you guys missed it.

"Valar Morghulis."

All Men Must Die

Now to some classics:

"He would have grown up to be a Frey."

"The North remembers."

-Lord Wyman Manderly

The broken men speech

-Septon Meribald

"You know nothing, Jon Snow."

-Ygritte

"A dragon is no slave."

"Dracarys."

-Daenerys Targaryan

"Justice. Vengeance. Fire and Blood."

-Doran Martell

"You raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children."

-The Red Viper

"Winter is coming."

[rumple9]

"I think you should wear your armour tonight, Ser...."

Gave me shivers

[Grand Moff Mithrandir]

"No! I'm done with dancing for the nonce"

The event that these words triggered.

[The Grass]

There's one particular quote I find missing in this thread. I must admit that I've heard this line in the show before I had read the books, and that is where it made its first impression on me. For me, it characterised a strongly emotional scene.

“Your meat,” he roared, “is bloody tough.” - The Greatjon

[rondo has three heads]

I'm glad this thread was on the main page because I didn't want to start a whole thread for this, but....

I was a little confused about this scene. It is either very typical, or shows Sansa Stark being an absolute badass.

Cersei has just ordered Lady's death in place of the absent Nymeria.

“Send for Ilyn Payne.” [Cersei]

“No,” Ned said. “Jory, take the girls back to their rooms and bring me Ice.” The words tasted of bile in his throat, but he forced them out. “If it must be done, I will do it.”

Cersei Lannister regarded him suspiciously. “You, Stark? Is this some trick? Why would you do such a thing?”

They were all staring at him, but it was Sansa’s look that cut. “She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher."

Does Sansa or Ned say this!? I cannot see Sansa saying it, but she is the proper noun immediately preceding the line while Ned is referred to as "him."

Anyways, the scene is pretty solid, but if Sansa (who has only been away from Winterfell a few weeks at this point) salts Cersei like that, could be her most badass moment of the series thus far.

[King of Winters]

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword"- Eddard Stark.

[Queen of Whores]

"Kingthlayer, you are my captith!"

-Vargo Hoat to Jaime Lannister

"Do not make me rue the day I raped your mother."

-Roose Bolton to Ramsay Snow in the greatest burn ever said

[Stag Country]

A number of good ones have already been mentioned. Here's a few more:

"I can out drink, fight, and sing Mance and my member is thrice the size. But he is clever..." -Tormund on Mance

"Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head." - Tyrion

“You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.” - Varys

“Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe . . . an infant girl, say, still at her mother’s breast . . . would you do it? Without question?” -Tyrion

“Without question? No. I'd ask how much.”-Bronn

"I stopped believing in gods the day I saw the Windproud break up across the bay. Any gods so monstrous as to drown my mother and father would never have my worship, I vowed. In King’s Landing, the High Septon would prattle at me of how all justice and goodness flowed from the Seven, but all I ever saw of either was made by men." -Stannis

"I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne." -Stannis

"“Who better to command the black cloaks than a man who once commanded the gold cloaks, sire?” - I think this was Marsh or Thorne

“Any of you, I would think. Even the cook.” - Stannis

“Aye, men are dying. More will die before we see Winterfell. What of it? This is war. Men die in war. That is as it should be. As it has always been.”

Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. “Do you want to die, Wull?”

That seemed to amuse the northman. “I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.”

[A Man Has Said]

I think this one sums up our sweet litte Arya nicely:

Lady Smallwood "What do you like to do?"

Arya "Needlework"

Lady Smallwood "Very restfull, isn´t it?"

Arya "Well, not the way I do it."

I liked that one so much I had to make it my signature. I'm doing a re-read and if I come across something better I MAY change my signature some time in the future, but it's going to have to be something quite extraordinary.

[Janicia]

I'm glad this thread was on the main page because I didn't want to start a whole thread for this, but....

I was a little confused about this scene. It is either very typical, or shows Sansa Stark being an absolute badass.

Cersei has just ordered Lady's death in place of the absent Nymeria.

“Send for Ilyn Payne.” [Cersei]

“No,” Ned said. “Jory, take the girls back to their rooms and bring me Ice.” The words tasted of bile in his throat, but he forced them out. “If it must be done, I will do it.”

Cersei Lannister regarded him suspiciously. “You, Stark? Is this some trick? Why would you do such a thing?”

They were all staring at him, but it was Sansa’s look that cut. “She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher."

Does Sansa or Ned say this!? I cannot see Sansa saying it, but she is the proper noun immediately preceding the line while Ned is referred to as "him."

Anyways, the scene is pretty solid, but if Sansa (who has only been away from Winterfell a few weeks at this point) salts Cersei like that, could be her most badass moment of the series thus far.

That was Ned talking.