- Joffrey Baratheon: [announcing Eddard Stark's sentence] My mother wishes me to let Lord Eddard join the Night's Watch. Stripped of all titles and powers, he would serve the realm in permanent exile. And my Lady Sansa has begged mercy for her father. But they have the soft hearts of women. So long as I am your king, treason shall never go unpunished. Sir Ilyn, bring me his head!
- Eddard Stark: You think my life is some precious thing to me? That I would trade my honor for a few more years... of what? You grew up with actors. You learned their craft and you learnt it well. But I grew up with soldiers. I learned to die a long time ago.
- Lord Varys: Pity. Such a pity. What of your daughter's life, my lord? Is that a precious thing to you?
- Robb Stark: I sent two thousand men to their graves today.
- Theon Greyjoy: The bards will sing songs of their sacrifice.
- Robb Stark: Aye, but the dead won't hear them.
- Tyrion Lannister: Who are you?
- Shae: Who would you like me to be?
- Tyrion Lannister: What did your mother call you?
- Shae: Shae. What did your mother call you?
- Tyrion Lannister: My mother died giving birth to me.
- Shae: Is that why I'm here? So we can talk about our mothers?
- Tyrion Lannister: What sort of accent is that?
- Shae: Foreign.
- Tyrion Lannister: For...
- [Tyrion drops further questioning]
- Shae: What do you want from me?
- Tyrion Lannister: What do I want from you?
- [Tyrion exhales]
- Tyrion Lannister: I want you to share my tent. Pour my wine, laugh at my jokes, rub my legs when they're sore after a day's ride. I want you to take no other man to bed for as long as we are together. And I want you to fuck me like it's my last night in this world. Which it may well be.
- Shae: And what do I get?
- Tyrion Lannister: One - safety. No one would hurt you for as long as you're mine. Two - the pleasure of my company. Which I have heard is spectacular.
- Shae: Who told you this? Women you paid?
- Tyrion Lannister: And, three - more gold than you can spend if you live a thousand years. Do you accept my proposal?
- Maester Aemon: Tell me, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?
- Jon Snow: No.
- Maester Aemon: So they will not love. Love is the death of duty. If the day should ever come when your lord father was forced to choose between honor on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?
- Jon Snow: He... he would do whatever was right. No matter what.
- Maester Aemon: Then Lord Stark is one man in 10,000. Most of us are not so strong. What is honor compared to a woman's love? And what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? Or a brother's smile?
- Jon Snow: Sam told you.
- Maester Aemon: We're all human. Oh, we all do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. Yet sooner or later in every man's life there comes a day when it's not easy. A day when he must choose.
- Jon Snow: And this is my day? Is that what you are saying?
- Maester Aemon: Oh, it hurts, boy, Oh, yes. I know.
- Jon Snow: You do not know! No one knows. I may be a bastard, but he is my father and Robb is my brother!
- Maester Aemon: [chuckles] The gods were cruel when they saw fit to test my vows. They waited till I was old. What could I do when the ravens brought news from the South? The ruin of my House, the death of my family? I was helpless, blind, frail. But when I heard they had killed my brother's son, and his poor son, and the children. Even the little children!
- Jon Snow: Who are you?
- Maester Aemon: My father was Maekar, the First of his Name. My brother Aegon reigned after him, when I had refused the throne, and he was followed by his son Aerys, whom they called the Mad King.
- Jon Snow: You're Aemon Targaryen.
- Maester Aemon: I am a master of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black and the Night's Watch. I will not tell you... to stay or go. You must make that choice yourself, and live with it for the rest of your days. As I have.
- Jaime Lannister: We could end this war right now, boy, save thousands of lives. You fight for the Starks, I fight for the Lannisters. Swords or lances, teeth, nails - choose your weapons, and let's end this here and now.
- Robb Stark: If we do it your way, Kingslayer, you'd win. We're not doing it your way.
- Bronn: Our lord here used to be married.
- Shae: Married?
- Tyrion Lannister: [annoyed] How did you hear that?
- Bronn: You hear lot of things playing dice with Lannister soldiers.
- Tyrion Lannister: [stands] Another night, perhaps.
- Shae: [grabs his hand] Not another night. This night!
- Tyrion Lannister: It's not a pleasant story.
- Shae: Or maybe I will cry.
- Bronn: I'm guessing the lady and I can tell more unpleasant stories than your lordship.
- Tyrion Lannister: [sits down] So... I was sixteen. My brother Jaime and I were riding when we heard a scream. She ran out onto the road, clothes half torn off, with two men on her heels. Jaime scared away the men easily enough while I wrapped her in my cloak. She was too scared to send off on her own, so Jaime hunted down the rapers, I took her to the nearest inn and fed her. Her name was Tysha. She was a wheelwright's orphan, and she was hungry. Together we finished off three chickens and a flagon of wine. Impossible as it seems, there was a time when I was unaccustomed to wine. I forgot how frail I was around girls. I was always waiting for them to laugh at me, or look away embarrassed, or ask me about my tall handsome brother. I forgot about everything but Tysha, and somehow I found myself in her bed...
- Bronn: For three chickens, I should hope so!
- Tyrion Lannister: Didn't last long: I didn't know what the hell I was doing. But she was good to me. She kissed me afterwards, and sang me a song, and by morning I was deep enough in love to ask for her hand. A few lies, a few gold coins, and one drunken septon, and there you have it: man and wife. A fortnight anyway, until the septon sobered up and told my father...
- Bronn: Well, I imagine that was the end of all that.
- Tyrion Lannister: Not quite. First my father had Jaime tell me the truth: the girl was a whore, you see. Jaime had arranged the whole thing: the road, the rapers, all of it. He thought it was time I had a woman. After my brother confessed, my father brought in my wife and gave her to his guards. He paid her well, a silver for each of them. How many whores command that kind of price? He brought me into the barracks and made me watch. By the end, she had so much silver, that the coins were slipping through her fingers and rolling onto the floor.
- Bronn: I would have killed the man who did that to me.
- Shae: You should have known she was a whore.
- Tyrion Lannister: Really? I was sixteen, drunk and in love.
- Shae: A girl who is almost raped doesn't invite another man into her bed two hours later.
- Tyrion Lannister: As I said, I was young and stupid.
- Shae: You are still young and stupid.
- [Shae approaches Tyrion and lies on top of him. They start having sex. Bronn realizes that he is not needed, and leaves]
- [Tyrion and Tywin talk about the savages of the mountain clans that Tyrion recruited recently]
- Tyrion Lannister: Ferocious? Last night, a Moon Brother stabbed a Stone Crow over a sausage. Three Stone Crows seized the Moon Brother and opened his throat. Bronn managed to keep Shagga from chopping off the dead man's cock, which was fortunate, but even still, Olf is demanding blood money, which Shagga and Gunther refuse to pay.
- Tywin Lannister: When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their commander.
- Tyrion Lannister: Surely there are ways to have me killed that would be less detrimental to the war effort!
- Bronn: Stay low.
- Tyrion Lannister: Stay low?
- Bronn: If you're lucky, no one will notice you.
- Tyrion Lannister: I was born lucky.
- Walder Frey: Stark, Tully, Lannister, Baratheon. Give me one good reason why I should waste a single thought on any of you?