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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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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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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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But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.

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No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew...more

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Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

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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...more

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Never speak of defeat before battle.

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Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.

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The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

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It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

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It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask y...more

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Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled betwe...more

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Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,