I’d be anonymous. That’s what I’d do differently.

Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.