Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.