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.]

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.