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

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.

The greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

There are no men like me. There’s only me.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab.