Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She has you there.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.