It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.
He was swimming in a sea of other peopleโs expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
A pig painted gold is still a pig.
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.