People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.