And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.