That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

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.

Some doors are best left closed.