Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.

Woman?” She chuckled. “Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.” Dany met his stare. “I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo’s riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.