If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

If I look back I am lost.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.