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eaed98f
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Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.
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790851e
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All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or reassuring. Even the sky was grey.
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grey
jeyne-poole
sad
theon-greyjoy
wedding
winterfell
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George R.R. Martin |
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d46cf11
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An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.
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George R.R. Martin |
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9a98fca
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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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George R.R. Martin |
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a64b9b4
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Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.
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George R.R. Martin |
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1a8aaa8
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When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it
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George R.R. Martin |
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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 |
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09e89f6
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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs ..
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George R.R. Martin |
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bb2f63d
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She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
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George R.R. Martin |
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5907b09
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Her clothes were almost dry by the time she reached the gatehouse. The portcullis was down and the gates barred, so she turned aside to a postern door. The gold cloaks who had the watch sneered when she told them to let her in. "Off with you," one said. "The kitchen scraps are gone, and we'll have no begging after dark." "I'm not a beggar," she said. "I live here." "I said, off with you. Do you need a clout on the ear to help your hearing?"..
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George R.R. Martin |
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9d2ee1e
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I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings?
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George R.R. Martin |
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e328fe4
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Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible, and red.
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a-game-of-thrones
the-red-priestess
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George R.R. Martin |
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68ff55e
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The truth is, I wanted to watch you for a time before pledging you my sword. To make certain that you were not..." "...my father's daughter?" If she was not her father's daughter, who was she? "...mad," he finished. "But I see no taint in you." "Taint?" Dany bristled. "I am no maester to quote history at you, Your Grace. Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Y..
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George R.R. Martin |
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3098dfd
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The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.
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jon-snow
magic
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George R.R. Martin |
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c828cb9
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I have been despised by better men than you.
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George R.R. Martin |
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52ffd5e
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I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.
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authors
creative-writing
gardner
writers
writing
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George R.R. Martin |
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b0fdb4f
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The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly."
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tyrion-lannister
tywin-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
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0639144
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None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
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George R.R. Martin |
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33d686b
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It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.
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George R.R. Martin |
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8041864
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Pray for me, if you like," he told his cousin. "I forgotten all the words."
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jaime-and-cersei
the-things-i-do-for-love
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George R.R. Martin |
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3eb73e5
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He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
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George R.R. Martin |
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6d07704
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A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes," the Mountain declared. "Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six."
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inspirational
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George R.R. Martin |
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c0c0143
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The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.
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catelyn-stark
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George R.R. Martin |
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813ab05
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Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos puffed up with pride. We do not kill to serve some lord, to fatten our purses, to stroke our vanity. We never give the gift to please ourselves. Nor do we choose the ones we kill. We are but servants of the God of Many Faces." "Valar dohaeris." All men must serve. "You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. ..
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humor
irony
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George R.R. Martin |
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39a76da
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He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)
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George R.R. Martin |
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c043c12
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But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
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George R.R. Martin |
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9d1c38d
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That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.
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wolf
wolves
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George R.R. Martin |
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7b53198
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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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George R.R. Martin |
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48a3d4a
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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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George R.R. Martin |
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0e0d7e5
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Surprisingly, Stannis smiled at that. "You're bold enough to be a Stark. Yes, I should have come sooner. If not for my Hand, I might not have come at all. Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne."
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George R.R. Martin |
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1165e83
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I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?
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George R.R. Martin |
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adc6e24
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Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.
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George R.R. Martin |
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c453d6f
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It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.
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aemon-targaryen
books
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George R.R. Martin |
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771bb63
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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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kings
protect
protection
queens
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George R.R. Martin |
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0900e5c
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Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.
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naked
wrestling
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George R.R. Martin |
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6482343
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In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
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George R.R. Martin |
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b6833c6
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Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.
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George R.R. Martin |
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52913a5
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I looked for you on the Trident," Ned said to them. "We were not there," Ser Gerold answered. "Woe to the Usurper if we had been," said Ser Oswell. "When King's Landing fell, Ser Jaime slew your king with a golden sword, and I wondered where you were." "Far away," Ser Gerold said, "or Aerys would yet sit the Iron Throne, and our false brother would burn in seven hells." "I came down on Storm's End to lift the siege," Ned told them, and the ..
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George R.R. Martin |
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16cba0c
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There are things to be learned even from the dead.
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George R.R. Martin |
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89855ba
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Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.
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tyrion-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
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6409ca3
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Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction.
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tyrion-lannister
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George R.R. Martin |
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fe4a3a3
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Jaime smiled. "I hope you're not thinking of taking the black on us, sweet brother." Tyrion laughed. "What, me, celibate? The whores would go begging from Dorne to Casterly Rock. No, I just want to stand on top of the Wall and piss off the edge of the world."
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George R.R. Martin |
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eff92f6
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The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.
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George R.R. Martin |
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e8af8af
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On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
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gallows-tree
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George R.R. Martin |