I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.