A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

“She had surrendered her virtue at six-and-ten, to a beautiful blond-haired sail…”

“That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortles…”

“For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest…”

“Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who…”