I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spinds and back flips. "Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?" She nodded. "Tomorrow we're going to catch cats." "Cats." Ned sighed.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.