Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya

A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.