Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

She had never loved him so much as she did in that instant.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.