- Joffrey Baratheon: I'll tell you what. I'm going to give you a present. After I raise my armies, and kill your traitor brother, I'll give you his head as well.
- Sansa Stark: Or maybe he'll give me yours.
- Theon Greyjoy: Am I your brother, now and always?
- Robb Stark: Now and always.
- [Theon draws his sword and kneels before Robb]
- Theon Greyjoy: My sword is yours, in victory and defeat, from this day until my last day.
- Daenerys Targaryen: [to her khalasar] I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, of the blood of Old Valyeria. I am the dragon's daughter, and I swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming.
- Mirri Maz Duur: You will not hear me screaming.
- Daenerys Targaryen: I will. But it is not your screams I want. Only your life.
- Jeor Mormont: Honor made you leave, and honor brought you back.
- Jon Snow: My friends brought me back.
- Jeor Mormont: I didn't say it was *your* honor.
- Jaime Lannister: If your gods are real, if they're just, why is the world so full of injustice?
- Catelyn Stark: Because of men like you.
- Jaime Lannister: There are no men like me. Only me.
- [Robb and the northmen argue to whom they should swear fealty]
- Greatjon Umber: My Lords! Here is what I say to these two kings.
- [Greatjon spits]
- Greatjon Umber: Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine from some flowery seat in the South? What do they know of the Wall or the Wolfswood? Even their gods are wrong! Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we bowed to... and now the dragons are dead!
- [Greatjon takes out his sword and points to Robb]
- Greatjon Umber: There sits the only king I mean to bend my knee to - the King in the North!
- Daenerys Targaryen: [about Drogo] This is not life. When will be as he was?
- Mirri Maz Duur: When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When seas go dry. When mountains blow in the winds like leaves.
- Jeor Mormont: So I'll only ask you once, Lord Snow. Are you a brother of the Night's Watch or a bastard boy who wants to play at war.
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Kings? I can tell you all there is to know about kings. The thing you need to understand about kings: in the past 67 years, I have known - truly known - more kings than any man alive. They're complicated men, but I know how to serve them. Yes. And keep on serving them.
- [Pycelle coughs]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Aerys Targaryen... of all the thousand thousand maladies the gods visit on us, madness is the worst. He was a good man, such a charmer. To watch him melt away before my eyes, consumed by dreams of fire and blood...
- [Ros stands in front of sink, washing herself]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Robert Baratheon was entirely different animal: powerful man, a great warrior. But, alas, winning a kingdom and ruling a kingdom are rather different things.
- [Pycelle chuckles]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: They say that if a man goes through life with his battle visor down, he can often be blind to enemies at his side.
- [Pycelle coughs]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Now I serve his son, king Joffrey, may the gods bless his reign. He's a capable young man...
- [Ros dresses]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: ...strong military mind, stern - but sterness in defence of the realm is no vice.
- [Pycelle coughs]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: It's far too soon to know what manner of king he will be, but I sense true greatness on the horizon for our new king. True greatness.
- [Ros sits in front of Pycelle, looking bored]
- Ros: So, what's the thing?
- Grand Maester Pycelle: [puzzled] Wha... what thing?
- Ros: About kings. You said "The thing you need to understand about kings".
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Eh... thing? What...?
- Ros: When you started... oh, never mind.
- [Ros stands and walks toward the door]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Let me see you out, my dear.
- Ros: It's alright. No need.
- [Ros leaves]
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Yes, yes, until the next time.
- [Pycelle stands and stretches a bit. He gets dressed, and leaves]
- [the Hound wipes the blood off Sansa's lip with a handkerchief]
- Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: Save yourself some pain, girl. Give him what he wants.
- [Sansa attempts to return the Hound's handkerchief]
- Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane: You'll be needing that again.
- Mirri Maz Duur: [to Daenerys] Why don't you take a look at your khal? Then you will see exactly what life is worth when all the rest is gone.
- Jeor Mormont: When dead men, and worse, come hunting for us in the night, do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne?
- Jon Snow: No.
- Jeor Mormont: Good. Because I want you and your wolf with us when we ride beyond the Wall tomorrow.
- Jon Snow: Beyond the Wall?
- Jeor Mormont: I will not sit meekly by and wait for the snows. I mean to find out what's happening. The Night's Watch will ride in force against the wildlings, the White Walkers, and whatever else is out there. And we will find Benjen Stark, alive or dead. I will command them myself. So I will ask you once, Lord Snow, are you a brother of the Night's Watch, or a bastard boy who wants to play at war?
- Tywin Lannister: [pouring wine] You were right about Eddard Stark. If he were alive, we could've used him to broker a peace with Winterfell and Riverrun, which would've given us more time to deal with Robert's brothers, but now? Madness! Madness and stupidity!
- [he pauses]
- Tywin Lannister: I always thought you were a stunted fool. Perhaps I was wrong.
- Tyrion Lannister: Half wrong. I'm new to strategy, but unless we want to be surrounded by three armies, it appears we can't stay here.
- Tywin Lannister: No one will stay here. Ser Gregor will head out with 500 riders and set the Riverland on fire from God's Eye to the Red Fork. The rest of us will regroup at Harrenhal. And you will go to King's Landing.
- Tyrion Lannister: And do what?
- Tywin Lannister: Rule. You will serve as Hand of the King in my stead. You will bring that boy king to heel, and his mother too, if needs be. And if you get so much as a whiff of treason from any of the rest - Baelish, Varys, Pycelle...
- Tyrion Lannister: Heads, spikes, walls. Why not my uncle? Why not anyone? Why me?
- Tywin Lannister: You're my son.
- [Tywin gets to his feet]
- Tywin Lannister: Oh, one more thing: you will not take that whore to court. Understand?
- Tywin Lannister: They have my son.
- Tyrion Lannister: The Stark boy appears to be less green than we'd hoped.
- Leo Lefford: I heard his wolf killed a dozen men and as many horses.
- Addam Marbrand: Is it true about Stannis and Renly?
- Kevan Lannister: Both Baratheon brothers have taken up against us. Jaime captured, his armies scattered... It's a catastrophe. Perhaps we should sue for peace.
- [Tyrion knocks his goblet onto the floor, shattering it]
- Tyrion Lannister: There's your peace. Joffrey saw to that when he decided to remove Ned Stark's head. You'll have an easier time drinking from that cup than you will bringing Robb Stark to the table now. He's winning, in case you haven't noticed.
- Kevan Lannister: I'm told we still have his sisters...
- Leo Lefford: The first order of business is ransoming Ser Jaime.
- Addam Marbrand: No truces, we can't afford to look weak. We should march on them at once.
- Kevan Lannister: First we must return to Casterly Rock to raise...
- Tywin Lannister: THEY HAVE MY SON!
- [everyone goes silent. Tywin turns around to address the room]
- Tywin Lannister: Get out, all of you.
- Joffrey Baratheon: [to Sansa] And as soon as you've had your blood, I'll put a son in you. Mother says that shouldn't take long.
- Shae: The Hand of the King?
- Tyrion Lannister: So it would seem.
- Shae: And your father said you couldn't take anyone with you to King's Landing?
- Tyrion Lannister: No. He said I couldn't take you to King's Landing. He was very specific on that point.
- Shae: He knew my name?
- Tyrion Lannister: What?
- Shae: He said "Don't bring Shae with you to King's Landing?"
- Tyrion Lannister: I believe he used the word "whore."
- Shae: [annoyed] Are you ashamed of me? Are you afraid that I'll dance around the court with my tits out? I'm funny now. I'm Shae, the funny whore.
- Tyrion Lannister: My father's probably the most powerful man in the country. Certainly the richest. He's got all seven kingdoms in his pocket. Everyone everywhere always has to do exactly what my father says.
- Daenerys Targaryen: You knew what I was buying and you knew the price.
- Mirri Maz Duur: It was wrong of them to burn my temple. It angered The Great Shepherd.
- Daenerys Targaryen: This is not God's work! My child was innocent.
- Mirri Maz Duur: Innocent? He was going to be the stallion who mounts the world. Now he will burn no cities. Now his Khalasaar will trample no nations into dust.
- Daenerys Targaryen: I spoke for you. I saved you.
- Mirri Maz Duur: Saved me? Three of those riders had already raped me before you saved me, girl. I saw my God's house burn. There where I had healed many men and women, beyond counting. In the streets I saw piles of heads. The head of a baker who makes my bread. The head of a young boy that I've cured of a fever three moons past. So, tell me exactly what it was that you saved?
- Daenerys Targaryen: Your life.
- Mirri Maz Duur: Why don't you take a look at your husband? Then you will see exactly what life is worth when all the rest is gone.