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And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

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Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend.

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Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.''Girls don't shave', Arya said.'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the...more

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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

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His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

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They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of ...more

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We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. ...more

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Laughter is poison to fear.

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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

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A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could br...more

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Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fan...more

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I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects techn...more