They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?


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The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on pa...
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Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
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A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
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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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Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
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A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
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He has hands like two white spiders.
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He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
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A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
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But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
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Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
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Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
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In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
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All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo...
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Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
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There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...
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The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
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It takes courage to admit fear.
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
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Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
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Some men think because they're afraid to do.
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You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
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Harsh justice is still justice.
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Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
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A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
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We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.

“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
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Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
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Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
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I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
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I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
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Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
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The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
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I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
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A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
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No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
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The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
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It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
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Wolves never cry.
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They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
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The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
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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...
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It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
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He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
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Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
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Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
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Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
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and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
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Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
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Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
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Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
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Better to live shamed than die proud.
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The crow commands, the captive must obey.
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I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
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Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
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My enemies are legion.
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How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
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Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
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Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
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