She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

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

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.