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?

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.