Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

I have been despised by better men than you.

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.

Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor.