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

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

In the end words are just wind.

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.