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.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.