Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.