2x07 A Man Without Honor

Tywin: She's a heroine of yours, I take it? Aren't most girls interested in pretty maidens from the songs? Jonquil with the flowers in her hair?

Arya: Most girls are idiots.

Tywin: Ha! You remind me of my daughter.

That had to hurt Arya in a way Tywin never meant. It was a classic Jeff Winger complisult; Tywin never cared much for Cersei outside of her use for joining House Baratheon and House Lannister, but he was so amused by Arya that he probably meant that as a compliment.

Tywin: Can't say I've ever met a literate stonemason.

Arya: Have you met many stonemasons, my lord?

Tywin: Careful now, girl. I enjoy you, but be careful.

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Catelyn: Take him to the stockades and bind him with every chain you have!

Jaime: You've become a real she-wolf in your later years! There's not much fish left in you.

Catelyn: And gag him!

Fuckin' Jaime always knew how to get under everyone's skins, even the person who just saved his life.

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Tyrion: If we can't control him..."

Cersei: Do you think I haven't tried? He doesn't listen to me.

Tyrion: It's hard to put a leash on a dog after you've put a crown on its head.

Cersei: Sometimes I wonder...if this is the price for what we've done, for our sins.

Tyrion: "Sins"? The Targaryens--

Cersei: Wed brother and sister for hundreds of years, I know. That's what Jaime and I would say to each other in our moments of doubt. It's what I told Ned Stark when he was stupid enough to confront me. Half the Targaryens went mad, didn't they? What's the saying? 'Every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a coin.

Tyrion: You've beaten the odds. Tommen and Myrcella are good, decent children, both of them."

It's heartbreaking seeing how much Tyrion wants to console the older sister who's always hated him, and eventually realizing she would not appreciate it.

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Ah, Cat. I understand why you did it, but it was still one of the worst possible moves you could've made.

Here comes one of Jaime's best moments of the show outside of him retelling the story of him killing the Mad King.

Catelyn: You are no knight. You have forsaken every vow you ever took.

Jaime: So many vows. They make you swear and swear: "Defend the king, obey the king, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak." But what if your father despises the king? What if the king massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another. Where did you find this beast?

Catelyn: She's a truer knight than you ever will be...Kingslayer.

Jaime: "Kingslayer." What a king he was. Here's to Aerys Targaryen, the Second of His Name, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, and to the word I shoved in his back.

Catelyn: You are a man without honor.

All these years later, knowing the truth behind Jon's parentage and knowing how guilty Cat always felt about her treatment of Jon Snow makes the moments that follow, like this, all the better.

Jaime: You know, I've never been with any woman but Cersei. So in my way, I have more honor than poor old dead Ned. What was the name of that bastard he fathered?

Catelyn: Brienne.

Jaime: No, that wasn't it. Snow, a bastard from the North. Now, when-- when good old Ned came home with some whore's baby, did you pretend to love it? No. You're not very good at pretending; you're an honest woman. You hated that boy, didn't you? How could you not hate him? The walking, talking reminder that the honorable Lord Eddard Stark fucked another woman.

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It's been 12 years, and I know it wasn't the case, but Luwin's scream of anguish when he thinks he's seeing the burnt and mutilated corpses of Bran and Rickon still makes me tear up. Donald Sumpter fucking sold that performance so well that it still makes me weepy.