CHAPTER TWO
"The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune."
"For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king"
"Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it"
"She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats."
...When you've know me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies. Lord Petyr...
"Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction."
"Why does a bear shit in the woods? he demanded. Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger. You ought to know that, you of all people"
"A fool more foolish than most had once jested that even Lord Tywin's shit was flecked with gold. Some said the man was still alive, deep in the bowels of Casterly Rock."
"And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?
If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons"
"Pissing is at least one of my talents, you ought to see me shit"
" I loved a maid fair as summer, with her sunlight in her hair"
"Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel"
