I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. 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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You will give joy to me, and I will do
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BENNETT The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really... ROBERT FULGHUM It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI If you nourish your hatred and your anger, you burn yourself. Understanding is the only way out. If ... THICH NHAT HANH Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind th... OMAR KHAYYáM Know how to spend your time, and you will live twice. Even more. OUSSAMA HEDHLI Don’t throw away your suffering. Touch your suffering. Face it directly, and your joy will become ... THICH NHAT HANH Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Mak... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Christ says, "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much o... C.S. LEWIS I don't have all of the answers to the world. I don't know everything about life and marriage and ha... MORDRED I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more ... J. RICHARD LESSOR One day I shall find you...When you touch me I shall shiver...When your lips shall touch mine, my he... ESMERALDA MORALES Planning is worth the effort. Planning isn't as boring and time-consuming activity as you think it i... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You're beautifulIt's trueI saw your face In a crowded placeand I dont know what to docause I will ne... JAMES BLUNT If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven an... SUN TZU But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns an... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Message from Archangel Chamuel: "Dear One, you are so beautiful inside and out. Trust yourself with ... 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RAMAKRISHNA TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run o... NIKITTA GILL You give me your blood and I will give you Independence! NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo... ELIZABETH GILBERT Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you RASHEDUR RYAN RAHMAN Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you RASHEDUR RAHMAN A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and r... 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MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It takes courage to admit fear. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shav... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some men think because they're afraid to do . GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Harsh justice is still justice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapp... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.” His chains chinked softly. “I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The living have no place at the feasts of the dead. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN No man is accursed as the kinslayer. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wolves never cry. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end. The hills that split asunder an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know. -Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Better to live shamed than die proud. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The crow commands, the captive must obey. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am alive, and drunk on sunlight. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some allies are more dangerous than enemies. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My enemies are legion. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" <... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go. 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