I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

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

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow

The only game. The game of thrones.

Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.