Charter Quote by Garth Nix

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones…

— Anonymous

“This Land is mostly white space on the map...which is how it should be; I'll leave more detailed map making to those graduate students…

— Stephen King

“And here, above the valley of Yarrow, Lord Culter and his brother and twenty men from Midculter in their wedding finery with, thank God,…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before they spread out into black spots. At…

— Georges Simenon

“Sweetened by a tower of Norman stone, the bells of Lent, carrying on their ancient sides the names of saints and merchants, squires and…

— Peter Maughan

“Long wooden farm tables with turned legs that looked like they'd been collected over a hundred years were placed end to end and ran…

— Mary Hollis Huddleston

“Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground.”

— Robert Kroese

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret…

— Cassandra Clare

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a…

— George R. R. Martin

And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all…

— Hans Kmoch

“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last late into…

— Lev Grossman

Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?'…

— Catherine Fisher