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.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you’ll never know." - Euron Greyjoy

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.