Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys lose, the good guys win, the boy gets the girl and they live happily ever after. There's a million books like that and if that's the comfort you're looking for, you should read those books and not my books because that's not the kind of book that I am interested in.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.