A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4)

by George R.R. Martin

“Some men think because they are afraid to do.” “There is a difference between fear and caution.”

“That will be a great relief. How can you know?” “Knowing is the nature of my service.”

A maid has to be mistrustful in this world, or she will not be a maid for long,

Rule your face, she told herself, and you can lie.

Tywin mistrusted laughter. He heard too many people laughing at your grandsire.”

The rest of her world had been female. Men frighten her, but women don’t,

Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world? Only a monster god, a demon of the darkness.”

Her father said there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear.