Game of Thrones [Season 3, Episode 6]

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

Sometimes we think we want to hear something and it's only afterwards when it's too late that we realize we wished we'd heard it under entirely different circumstances.

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.

It's a rare enough thing — a man who lives up to his reputation.

— It is flattering, really... you feeling such dread at the prospect of me getting what I want.
— Thwarting you has never been my primary ambition, I promise you. Although who doesn't like to see their friends fail now and then?