THE PRICE OF GREATNESS

There was a melancholy to Prince Rhaegar, a sense of doom.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?

The Redwynes enjoy a particularly close relationship with their overlord, House Tyrell.

Rhaegar won the tournament and chose to crown Lyanna Stark, the daughter of Lord Stark, who was betrothed to Robert Baratheon, instead of his wife Elia Martell.

Obara would make Oldtown our father's funeral pyre, but I am not so greedy.

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.

For centuries, House Bracken of Stone Hedge and House Blackwood of Raventree Hall have feuded.

"Honor, Not Honors"

Lord Ludd Whitehill. He is the Lord of Highpoint and head of House Whitehill.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Styling themselves the Bloodroyals, Lords of the Stone Way, Masters of the Green Hills, and High Kings of Dorne, the lords of House Yronwood in time ruled northern Dorne.

None of us wants war. Autumn wanes, and we must gird ourselves for winter.

The more we give these Tyrells, the more they demand of us.

House Flint of Widow's Watch is a noble house from Widow's Watch in the east of the north. They are probably the most powerful branch of House Flint, though the Flints of the mountains claim to be the oldest of the Flints.

He smiled a lot, as if the world were a secret joke that only he was clever enough to understand.

Jeyne Fossoway is a member of House Fossoway of New Barrel. She is the wife of Ser Gunthor Hightower.

To be sure. Lord Leyton's locked atop his tower with the Mad Maid, consulting books of spells. Might be he'll raise an army from the deeps. Or not.