If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Can they love without a word for it?

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.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.