“Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run...”

“If a handicapped woman says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask her if that includes parking.”

“…that would be too much like running away, and that, she would not do. She does not run—they cannot make her—she walks.”

“Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart’s desire. She had Ned’s long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. I despaired of ever making a lady of her. She collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head. I think that she must be dead too.”

“It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..”

“and even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her”