“The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life”

“But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

“Reading books again? Books will ruin your sword eye, boy.”

“Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.”

“Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us.”

“Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.”

“The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.”