When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.