Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

The only game. The game of thrones.

Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.