Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

You look pale, Sansa," Cersei observed. "Is your red flower still blooming?" "Yes" "How apt. The men will bleed out there, and you in here.

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.