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

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.

She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She’d tell him, “I missed you,” and he’d say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.