She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)