Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.