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Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to her pigs.""Harma's dead." Jon said."But not the pigs...more

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The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

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Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duc...more

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What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

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Dragons are fire made flesh.

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She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made he...more

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The fire that burns against the cold.

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Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

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Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

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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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Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

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Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that ca...more

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Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...more

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The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the night at bay.