- [Sansa passes the Hound]
- Sansa Stark: I beg pardon, ser. I should have come to you after... to thank you for saving me. You were so brave.
- Sandor Clegane: Brave? A dog doesn't need courage to chase off rats.
- Sansa Stark: [voice trembling] Does it give you joy to scare people?
- Sandor Clegane: No, it gives me joy to kill people. Spare me. You can't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.
- Sansa Stark: It was his duty. He never liked it.
- Sandor Clegane: Is that what he told you? He lied. Killing is the sweetest thing there is.
- Sansa Stark: Why are you always so hateful?
- Sandor Clegane: You'll be glad of the hateful things I do someday when you're queen and I'm all that stands between you and your beloved king.
- Ygritte: Now, you could be free too. You don't need to live your whole life taking commands from old men. Wake up when you want to wake up. I could show you the streams to fish, the woods to hunt. Build yourself a cabin and find a woman to lie with in the night. You're a pretty lad. Girls will claw each other's eyes out to get naked with you.
- Jon Snow: Walk!
- Ygritte: I could teach you how to do it.
- Jon Snow: I know how to do it.
- Ygritte: You know nothing, Jon Snow.
- Tywin Lannister: This'll be my last war... win or lose.
- Arya Stark: Have you ever lost before?
- Tywin Lannister: You think I'd be in my position if I'd lost a war?
- [Arya shakes her head]
- Tywin Lannister: And this is the one I'll be remembered for. "The War of Five Kings," they're calling it. My legacy will be determined in the coming months. You know what "legacy" means?
- [Arya shakes her head again]
- Tywin Lannister: It's what you pass down to your children, and your children's children. It's what remains of you when you're gone. Harren the Black thought this castle would be his legacy. Greatest fortress ever built. Tallest towers, the strongest walls. The Great Hall had thirty-five hearths. Thirty-five, can you imagine? Look at it now. A blasted ruin. Do you know what happened?
- Arya Stark: Dragons?
- Tywin Lannister: Yes. Dragons happened. Harrenhal was built to withstand an attack from the land. A million men could've marched on these walls and a million men would've been repelled. But an attack from the air, with dragonfire... Harren and all his sons roasted alive within these walls. Aegon Targaryen changed the rules. That's why every child alive still knows his name, three hundred years after his death.
- Arya Stark: Aegon and his sisters.
- Tywin Lannister: Hm?
- Arya Stark: It wasn't just Aegon riding his dragon. It was Rhaenys and Visenya, too.
- Tywin Lannister: Correct. A student of history, eh?
- Arya Stark: Rhaenys rode Meraxes. Visenya rode Vhaghar.
- Tywin Lannister: I'm sure I knew that when I was a boy.
- Arya Stark: Visenya Targaryen was a great warrior. She had a Valyrian steel sword she called "Dark Sister."
- Tywin Lannister: Hm. She's a heroine of yours, I take it. Aren't most girls more interested in the pretty maidens from the songs? Jonquil, with flowers in her hair?
- Arya Stark: Most girls are idiots.
- Tywin Lannister: [laughs] You remind me of my daughter. Where did you learn all this stuff about Visenya and her Valyrian steel sword?
- Arya Stark: From my father.
- [Tywin gives Arya a searching look]
- Tywin Lannister: He was a well-read stonemason? Can't say I've ever met a literate stonemason.
- Arya Stark: Have you met many stonemasons, my lord?
- Tywin Lannister: [with a small smile] Careful now, girl. I enjoy you, but be careful.
- Tywin Lannister: Take that back to the kitchen. Eat what you want.
- [Arya takes a plate with mutton and turns to leave]
- Tywin Lannister: Girl...
- [Arya freezes in fear, unsure what Tywin intends]
- Tywin Lannister: M'lord.
- [Arya turns to Tywin, stares at him confused]
- Tywin Lannister: Lowborn girls say "m'lord", not "my lord". If you're going to pose as a commoner, you should do it properly.
- Arya Stark: [defiantly] My mother served Lady Dustin for many years, MY LORD. She taught me how to speak proper... properly.
- Tywin Lannister: [amused] You're too smart for your own good. Has anyone told you that?
- Arya Stark: [smiles] Yes.
- Tywin Lannister: Go on.
- [relieved, Arya leaves]
- Jaime Lannister: I was sixteen once. I also had to replace someone's squire on short notice.
- Alton Lannister: Which knight was it?
- Jaime Lannister: Barristan Selmy. The fight against the kingswood outlaws, before your time.
- Alton Lannister: What was he like?
- Jaime Lannister: He was a painter. A painter who only used red.I couldn't imagine being able to fight like that. Not back then. And to help him do it, to be a part of something that perfect. I don't need to explain how that felt, not to you.
- Alton Lannister: It's hard to put into words.
- Jaime Lannister: It's like stepping into a dream you've been dreaming for as long as you can remember and finding out that the dream is more real than your life.
- Tyrion Lannister: It's just you, me, and Joffrey. The Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.
- Cersei Lannister: I'm sure you'll make a point eventually.
- Tyrion Lannister: He needs to start acting like a king. This war you started is coming to our doorstep. And if the entire city wants Joffrey dead...
- Cersei Lannister: I'm not the one giving the boy whores to abuse.
- Tyrion Lannister: I thought the girls might help him.
- Cersei Lannister: Did you?
- Tyrion Lannister: I was wrong!
- Jaime Lannister: I'm not well suited for imprisonment. Shocking, I know. Some men are. Ned Stark? I imagine he made an excellent prisoner right up until the end. But me, though... my life has left me uniquely unfit for constraint.
- Alton Lannister: And have you thought about...
- Jaime Lannister: Of course. Every day.
- Alton Lannister: And?
- Jaime Lannister: Good prisoners breed good jailers, apparently. The Starks are very careful. There is a way, I think. It wasn't possible until now.
- Alton Lannister: What is it?
- Jaime Lannister: It's actually quite simple.
- Alton Lannister: Well, let me help you.
- Jaime Lannister: You'll only have to do one thing.
- Alton Lannister: Tell me.
- [Jaime leans in close to whisper in Alton's ear]
- Jaime Lannister: You'll have to die.
- [Alton stares at Jaime in confusion for a moment. Jaime suddenly attacks Alton and beats him to death]
- [Jaime has been recaptured after his escape attempt]
- Rickard Karstark: Stand back! I want his head!
- [the Stark guards draw their swords]
- Rickard Karstark: Any man who stands between a father and his vengeance asks for death!
- Catelyn Stark: Lord Karstark! This man is our prisoner.
- Rickard Karstark: This monster killed my son.
- Catelyn Stark: And crippled mine! He will answer for his crimes, I promise you, but not here.
- Rickard Karstark: I will have his head, and if you try and stop me...
- Catelyn Stark: You will strike me down? Have you forgotten me, ser? I am the widow of you liege lord, Eddard Stark! I am the mother of your king!
- Rickard Karstark: And where is our king now?
- Catelyn Stark: You know very well! He has gone to the Crag to accept the surrender!
- Rickard Karstark: Aye, gone to the Crag. But not to negotiate. He brought that foreign bitch with him.
- Catelyn Stark: How dare you!
- [Brienne draws her sword]
- Brienne of Tarth: Threatening my lady is an act of treason!
- Rickard Karstark: Treason! How can it be treason to kill Lannisters?
- Catelyn Stark: I understand your grief, my lord. Better than most, I understand it. But in the name of my son, the King in the North, stand down!
- Rickard Karstark: When your son returns, I will demand this murderer's head.
- Catelyn Stark: Wise men do not make demands of kings.
- Rickard Karstark: Fathers who love their sons do. I will have his head.
- [Rickard Karstark stalks away]
- Jaime Lannister: Thank you for fighting on my behalf, Lady Stark. I would've come to your defense, but...
- [Jaime holds up his chained wrists]
- Catelyn Stark: [to the guards] Take him to the stockade. Bind him with every chain you can find!
- Jaime Lannister: You've become a real she-wolf in your later years. There's not much fish left in you.
- Catelyn Stark: And gag him!
- [after Bran, Rickon, Hodor, and Osha disappeared from Winterfell]
- Theon Greyjoy: A cripple. You let a cripple escape. The boy can't walk, but somehow he slipped past you.
- Lorren: The giant must've took him.
- Theon Greyjoy: [staring in disbelief] The giant? Hodor? Oh, that's all right, then. You let a halfwit escape with a cripple. And Rickon too, the little one?
- Lorren: Gone. Along with the Wildling woman. The one you were fucking.
- [Theon suddenly turns and knocks Lorren to the ground, then kicks him repeatedly]
- Theon Greyjoy: Right. Get the horses. And the hounds.
- [Tywin sniffs the poisoned dart that killed Amory Lorch]
- Tywin Lannister: Wolfsbane. A rare substance. This is no common assassin.
- Gregor Clegane: We hanged twenty men last night.
- Tywin Lannister: I don't care if you hanged a hundred. A man tried to kill me. I want his name and I want his head.
- Gregor Clegane: We think it was an infiltrator from the Brotherhood Without Banners.
- Tywin Lannister: Pretentious name for a band of outlaws. We can't allow rebels behind our lines to harass us with impunity. We look like fools and they look like heroes; that's how kings fall. I want them dead, every one.
- Gregor Clegane: Killing them isn't the problem. It's finding them.
- Tywin Lannister: Have you gone soft, Clegane? I always thought you had a talent for violence. Burn the villages, burn the farms. Let them know what it means to choose the wrong side.
- Talisa Maegyr: I've been treating your wounded men.
- Robb Stark: And my enemies, as some of my banner men are fond of mentioning.
- Talisa Maegyr: They're not my enemies.
- Robb Stark: That's what I tell my banner men.
- Xaro Xhoan Daxos: I've demanded a meeting of the Thirteen. One of them did this, or knows who did.
- Daenerys Targaryen: You are one of the Thirteen.
- Xaro Xhoan Daxos: If I wanted your dragons, I would have taken them. They mean nothing to me on their own.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Nothing? They're more valuable than anything in the world!
- Ygritte: Did you pull a knife on me in the night?
- [Jon jumps up]
- Ygritte: What's the matter? Can't be the first time you pressed your bone against a woman's arse.
- Jon Snow: Let's move.
- [Jon gets Ygritte up, and prepares to put her on a leash]
- Ygritte: Aye, it is the first time. How old are you, boy?
- Jon Snow: I'm a man... of the Night's Watch.
- Ygritte: You're a boy who's never been with a girl. Don't your stones start to hurt if your bone never gets...
- [Jon whirls Ygritte around, glaring at her]
- Jon Snow: Don't call them that.
- Ygritte: What, stones? Or bone?
- Jon Snow: Neither. Both.
- [Jon ties a rope around Ygritte's waist, leads her off]
- Jon Snow: Move!
- Ygritte: I heard they get all swollen and bruised if you don't use them. Of course, maybe that's just what the lads say when they want me feeling sorry for them. *As if* I feel sorry for them. Are there no girl crows?
- Jon Snow: [wearily] There are no women of the Night's Watch, no.
- Ygritte: So the lads just do it with each other?
- Jon Snow: No.
- Ygritte: Never?
- Jon Snow: Never. We swore an oath.
- Ygritte: You have sheep at the Wall?
- [Jon doesn't deign to answer]
- Ygritte: With your hands, then?
- [no answer]
- Ygritte: No wonder you're all so miserable.
- Jon Snow: Would you please shut up?
- Ygritte: [mockingly] "Would you please shut up?" You think you're better than me, crow. I'm a free woman.
- Jon Snow: You're a free woman?
- Ygritte: I might be your prisoner, but I'm a free woman!
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