If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.