- And her betrothed looked at her with the cool grey eyes of a Stark and promised to spare the boy who loved her. (catelyn, 440)
- She looked at him whenever she felt her strength failing; looked at him and chewed and swallowed, chewed and swallowed, chewed and swallowed. (daenerys, 490)
- How he had laughed. Yet he had gotten it wrong. The King dies, Ned Stark thought, and the Hand is buried. (eddard, 628)
- In the dawn light, the army of Lord Tywin Lanniester unfolded like an iron rose, thorns gleaming. (tyrion, 684)
- If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father's killers. He was no true Stark, had never been one . . . but he could die like one. Let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons, not three. (jon, 776)