Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.