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

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.

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

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

The women are the strong ones, truly.