"A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

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 at me, look at me, I'm the rain
~ George R. R. Martin ~











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