Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.