I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinchingher painfully. And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song.

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.