People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
George R. R. MartinAn awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
George R. R. MartinTime is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.
George R. R. MartinYou may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.
George R. R. Martin