Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

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