It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

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.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.