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Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is h...more

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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and ...more

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The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from on...more

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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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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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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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He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a d...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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Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into...more

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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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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

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I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have...more

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Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend.