They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.