That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

I know there are things you aren’t telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen, " he says in response.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Seek the truth.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

I love all motor sports at the top level.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Today has definitely been better than yesterday. We are having to do a little bit of sweeping but it is generally not too bad and I am still really enjoying the roads - I love being here!

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.