Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.