She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

Only the soldier pines and sentinels still showed green; the broadleaf trees had donned mantles of russet and gold, or else uncloaked themselves to scratch against the sky with branches brown and bare.