The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

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.

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

Some doors are best left closed.