When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming.

Nothing someone says before the word 'but' really counts.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.