George R. R. Martin - A Dance With Dragons (2011)

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

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Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

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Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

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She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

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An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

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Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. You are too skinny for him, Jhiqui was saying. You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known. Irri bristled back. It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.

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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 care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man.

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The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

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I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

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The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

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Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

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There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

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Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

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Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

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An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

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Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.

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The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

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Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

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The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

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Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)

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Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

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The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

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Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.

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He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

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So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.

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When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

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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 duck.

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The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

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