Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?