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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fan...more

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The hard truths are the ones to hold tight.-The Old Bear, A Game of Thrones

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It’s you and me that matters to me and you.

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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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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

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What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight be...more

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Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's what armageddon is supposed to be. Right?'Hobbins...more

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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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Fighting is better than this waiting,” Brienne said. “You don’t feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When ...more

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They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn sa...more

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People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

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My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

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The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and ev...more

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The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

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Was there ever a war where only one side bled?