Fear cuts deeper than swords.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

A mad man sees what he sees.

He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

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.