Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.