Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

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

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life