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

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

The man who never reads lives only one.