Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't...
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Sellswords put gold before honor.
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Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.
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There is no shame in loving.
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final wor...
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The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to wa...
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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...
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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...
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He is a sweet boy, quick to laugh, easy to love.
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We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
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We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.
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You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I s...
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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
