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Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be...more

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My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.”“Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

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Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon," or "Look at me, I'm a wizard," or "Look a...more

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Every child knows its mother, Dany thought. When the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves.

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Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm....

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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

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Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.