There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)

Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.