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Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

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Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

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It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

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Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "W...more

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I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her ...more

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There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

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Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon," or "Look at me, I'm a wizard," or "Look a...more

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There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is froze...more

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Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. Fo...more

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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't...more

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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

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Words are wind.