32ec78d
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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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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
curiosity
george-r-r-martin
tyrion-lannister
wall
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George R.R. Martin |
41c7cb7
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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-song-of-ice-and-fire
coldness
fear
forest
george-r-r-martin
north
snow
the-wall
trees
wind
winter
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George R.R. Martin |
6dd810a
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
history
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George R.R. Martin |
46c9a89
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A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
epic
george-r-r-martin
tyrion-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
dd01a62
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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 septa's legs?
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
arya-stark
cutting
funny
george-r-r-martin
jon-snow
sharp
shave
sword
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George R.R. Martin |
34402ab
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And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
jon-snow
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George R.R. Martin |
a996639
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"I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but some times she felt she was a little girl after all."
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
arya-stark
george-r-r-martin
the-starks
winter-is-coming
winterfell
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George R.R. Martin |
f2fc9d6
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In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
brienne
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George R.R. Martin |
688819b
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Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.' 'I'll take that wager, Ser Alliser', Jon said. 'I'd love to see Ghost juggle.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
bold
george-r-r-martin
ghost
jon-snow
ser-alliser
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George R.R. Martin |
90bdf32
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His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
black
cloak
fear
forest
george-r-r-martin
ser-waymar-royce
snow
the-wall
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George R.R. Martin |
3a081c4
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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. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
arya
feast
funny
george-r-r-martin
ironic
joffrey
prince
sansa
winterfell
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George R.R. Martin |
d5f5dff
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This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
benjen-stark
george-r-r-martin
jon-snow
night-s-watch
the-wall
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George R.R. Martin |
71832db
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She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. It certainly broke mine. Lowborn, half-starved, unwashed... Yet lovely. They'd torn the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chase the men into the woods. By the time he came trotting back, I'd gotten a name out of her, and a story. She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fever, on her way to... Well, nowhere, really. The girl was too frightened to send her off by herself, though, so I offered to take her to the closest inn and feed her while my brother rode back to the Rock for help. She was hungrier than I would have believed. We finished two whole chickens and part of a third, and drank a flagon of wine, talking. I was only thirteen, and the wine went to my head, I fear. The next thing I knew, I was sharing her bed. If she was shy, I was shyer. I'll never know where I found the courage. When I broke her maidenhead, she wept, but afterward she kissed me and sang her little song, and by morning I was in love.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
tyrion-lannister
winter-is-coming
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George R.R. Martin |
827a1d0
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For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
king
tyrion-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
b1d0afa
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The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
choice
women
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George R.R. Martin |
efa23ed
|
"Shadows." The world seemed darker when he said it. "Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark."
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
jon-snow
melissandre
shadows
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George R.R. Martin |
7e5ca4a
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"I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy."
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
game-of-thrones
stannis-baratheon
|
George R.R. Martin |
bea0ace
|
I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
game-of-thrones
jamie-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
dfaff56
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"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 god." The bold little boy with wild black hair and laughing eyes was a man grown now, one-and-twenty, and still he played his games. Cressen thought sadly."
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
asoiaf
childhood
fantasy
game-of-thrones
games
george-r-r-martin
got
kings
renly-baratheon
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George R.R. Martin |
29efe46
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"So the wolfling is leaving his den to play among the lions," he said in a voice of quiet satisfaction."
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
tywin-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
d4e105e
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...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime,
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a-game-of-thrones
a-song-of-ice-and-fire
epic-fantasy
fantasy
george-rr-martin
grimdark
historical-fiction
middle-ages
political-fiction
politics
war
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George R.R. Martin |
bb1d6bf
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The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
epic-fantasy
fiction
george-rr-martin
grimdark
middle-ages
politics
war
|
George R.R. Martin |
76bcbde
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"It were the black one," the man said, in a Ghiscari growl, "the winged shadow. He come down from the sky and ... and ..."
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
daenerys-targaryen
george-r-r-martin
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George R.R. Martin |
d3bc233
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Arya did not dare [take a bath], even though she smelled as bad as Yoren by now, all sour and stinky. Some of the creatures living in her clothes had come all the way from Flea Bottom with her; it didn't seem right to drown them.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
arya
cute
humor
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George R.R. Martin |
60ea620
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The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
bran-stark
cersei-lannister
jaime-lannister
twincest
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George R.R. Martin |
e154778
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Bran knew that men slept on top of women when they shared a bed. Sleeping under Lord Manderly would be like sleeping under a fallen horse, he imagined.
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a-game-of-thrones
a-song-of-ice-and-fire
bed
bran-stark
fallen-horse
lord-manderly
sleeping
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George R.R. Martin |
e7d3e07
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It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
epic-fantasy
game-of-thrones
george-rr-martin
grimdark
middle-ages
politics
war
|
George R.R. Martin |
7d164bb
|
...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.
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a-song-of-ice-and-fire
epic-fantasy
game-of-thrones
george-rr-martin
grimdark
middle-ages
politics
war
|
George R.R. Martin |