Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.