Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.