It was hard work to rule a kingdom, much less seven of them.

“She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?”“Vengeance.” His voice was …”

“I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids a…”

“That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the gr…”

“Stone, I must be stone, I must be Casterly Rock, hard and unmovable.”