"Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.
~ George R. R. Martin ~












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"The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay.
"She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.
"A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a ...
"Ice can kill as dead as fire.
"What fire joins none man can put aside,
"The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.
"The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.
"Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs.""Harma's dead." Jon said."But not the pigs...
"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.
"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duc...
"What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
"Dragons are fire made flesh.
"She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made he...
"The fire that burns against the cold.