Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.
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There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
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There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is froze...
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Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if ...
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Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teet...
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Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet...
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Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,
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His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
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Laughter is poison to fear.
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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
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Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
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Fear cuts deeper than swords.
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Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are present...
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A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It ge...
