It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

There are a number of things that I'm trying to get into the books. There's a meta-fictional aspect, if I may use that pretentious word, to writing anything. You're writing in the shadow of all the people that have gone before and, in a way, you're having a dialogue with them. As someone who's read J.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and all the great fantasists before, this is almost my answer to them.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.