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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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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not...more

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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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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to wa...more

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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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He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wron...more

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Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

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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.

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Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?”“It is.” Jon took her hand.“Good,” she whispered. “I wanted t’ see one proper castle, before ...more

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When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

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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.