Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.