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I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

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Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

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They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody diff...more

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It’s you and me that matters to me and you.

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Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

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She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which w...more

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Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing. When I first came to Winterfell, I was hurt whenever Ned went to the godwood t...more

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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her ...more

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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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She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honou...more

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There is no shame in loving.

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The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

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I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. T...more

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She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

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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