“A king had best know the names of his enemies, don’t you think?”
“-I have this friend—you don’t know him—but— -Is his name Molloway? -No. -Oh. I don’t know anybody named Molloway, so that’s why I was asking.”
“He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own country.”
“He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness.”
“Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.”
“Friends are just enemies you don’t know enough about.”