When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

“May,” said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.”

“And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolves, and the wind itself was…”

“There’s always a bear,”

“It was a woman's voice, high and sweet, with a strange music in it like none th…”