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.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

I am loyal to my beloved Joffrey. (Sansa) No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves. (Tyrion) Lions, she whispered without thinking.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.