Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.