Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.