If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.