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Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

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It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

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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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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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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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A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

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Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her ...more

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It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

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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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A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't...more

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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

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All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion.

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Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a b...more