We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

Trying is always enough.

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.