Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.