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Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery
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I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon.
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The madness of mercy," Ned admitted. "Ah," said Varys. "To be sure. 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 see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why."
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When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.
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Honor set you on the kingsroad ... and honor brought you back.
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The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
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Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
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Kill the boy and let the man be born.
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Cersei cupped the other woman's breast. Softly at first, hardly touching, feeling the warmth of it beneath her palm, the skin as smooth as satin. She gave it a gentle squeeze, then ran her thumbnail lightly across the big dark nipple, back and forth and back and forth until she felt it stiffen. When she glanced up, Taena's eyes were open. "Does that feel good?" she asked. "Yes," said Lady Merryweather. "And this?" Cersei pinched the nipple ..
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Samwell Tarly looked at him for a long moment, and his round face seemed to cave in on itself. He sat down on the frost-covered ground and began to cry, huge choking sobs that made his whole body shake. Jon Snow could only stand and watch. Like the snowfall on the barrowlands, it seemed the tears would never end. It was Ghost who knew what to do. Silent as shadow, the pale direwolf moved closer and began to lick the warm tears off Samwell T..
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Ser Jorah was not a handsome man. He had a neck and shoulders like a bull, and coarse black hair covered his arms and chest so thickly that there was none left for his head.
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racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts.
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Tyrion wondered whether this was the last sunrise he would ever see ... and whether wondering was a mark of cowardice.
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Viserys could not sweep a stable with ten thousand brooms.
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If I look back, I am lost.
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Her brother Rhaegar had died for the woman he loved.
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No doubt he was smiling. He smiled a lot, as if the world were a secret joke that only he was clever enough to understand.
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Family, Duty, Honor,
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When the spirit stepped out of the open tomb, pale white and moaning for blood, Sansa ran shrieking for the stairs, and Bran wrapped himself around Robb's leg, sobbing. Arya stood her ground and gave the spirit a punch. It was only Jon, covered with flour. "You stupid," she told him, "you scared the baby," but Jon and Robb just laughed and laughed, and pretty soon Bran and Arya were laughing too."
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Theon Greyjoy had once commented that Hodor did not know much, but no one could doubt that he knew his name. Old Nan had cackled like a hen when Bran told her that, and confessed that Hodor's real name was Walder. No one knew where "Hodor" had come from, she said, but when he started saying it, they started calling him by it. It was the only word he had."
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Let them mock, Bran thought. No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.
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His fur was white, where the rest of the litter was grey. His eyes were as red as the blood of the ragged man who had died that morning. Bran thought it curious that this pup alone would have opened his eyes while the others were still blind.
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Lions care not for the opinions of sheep.
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the Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky.
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What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,"
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The maester had taught him all the banners: the mailed fist of the Glovers, silver on scarlet; Lady Mormont's black bear; the hideous flayed man that went before Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort; a bull moose for the Hornwoods; a battle-axe for the Cerwyns; three sentinel trees for the Tallharts; and the fearsome sigil of House Umber, a roaring giant in shattered chains.
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Only a fool would ever claim she was more beautiful than I. The world was full of fools, however.
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Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime's shoulder. "When this battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but ... well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return."
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A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.
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Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels,
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His desire was as deep and boundless as the sea, but when the tide receded, the rocks of shame and guilt thrust up as sharp as ever. Sometimes the waves would cover them, but they remained beneath the waters, hard and black and slimy.
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Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.
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Seven hundred feet above, the sentries heard and raised their warhorns to their lips. The sound rang out, echoing off the Wall and out across the world. Ahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. One long blast. For a thousand years or more, that sound had meant rangers coming home. Today it meant something else. Today it called the free folk to their new homes.
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Winter storms are worse, but autumn's are more frequent.
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I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago. We all did. Once I was as young as you.
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If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both.
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No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.
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Melisandre's red lips curled into a smile. "I have seen you in my fires, Jon Snow." "Is that a threat, my lady? Do you mean to burn me too?" "You mistake my meaning." She gave him a searching look. "I fear that I make you uneasy, Lord Snow." Jon did not deny it. "The Wall is no place for a woman." "You are wrong. I have dreamed of your Wall, Jon Snow. Great was the lore that raised it, and great the spells locked beneath its ice. We walk be..
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Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.
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The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods.
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His blood is bad. He needs to be leeched. The leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. No man can think so full of anger.
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What was he now? Only Bran the broken boy, Brandon of House Stark, prince of a lost kingdom, lord of a burned castle, heir to ruins.
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Ser Barristan," she called, "I know what quality a king needs most." "Courage, Your Grace?" "Cheeks like iron," she teased. "All I do is sit."
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one naked girl with a mud up to her knees could not seem to take her eyes off Tyrion. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face and stuck his tongue out and the girl began to cry
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