A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'
But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.