Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.