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Girl or boy, we fight our battles. But the God's let us choose our weapons.

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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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We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

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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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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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And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of...more

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If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will...more

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No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

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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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It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

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The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might ...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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Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole t...more

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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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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