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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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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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There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

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Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

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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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There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

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

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It is hard to die unmourned.

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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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Still, beauty can mask deadly danger.

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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