Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.