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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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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

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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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What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight be...more

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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

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Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

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How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many ...more

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There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

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All men must die. We are but death's instruments, not death himself.

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She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings o...more

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Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

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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