The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.
On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.
And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.
The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.