You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.