Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad. - George R. R. Martin

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant. But Romanticism has its dark side, as any Romantic soon discovers... which is where the melancholy comes in, I suppose. I don't know if this is a matter of artistic influences so much as it is of temperament. But there's always been something in a twilight that moves me, and a sunset speaks to me in a way that no sunrise ever has.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life