Dark wings, dark words.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.