Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.