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.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.