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

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

Dark wings, dark words.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.