Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.