Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Love is madness, and lust is poison.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.