History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.