"Being practical might not be very romantic but it has served me better than any sort of frivolity or beauty," Sansa says. If only she'd been practical as a young girl! She supposes every young girl is as empty headed as she had been but still, there are many mistakes she would correct now.

"My goal is to learn useful magic and not necessarily pretty magic. If they are both at the same time, however, then there is nothing wrong with that."