How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

If? The word is when.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

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

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.