Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

There are things to be learned even from the dead.