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“You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold.”
“It is always cold on the Wall.”
“You think so?”
“I know so, my lady.”
“Then you know nothing, Jon Snow,” she whispered.
“Your men did what they were sworn to do, Robb. They died protecting their liege lord. Grieve for them. Honor them for their valor.”
-Catelyn Stark
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“The sight of the black iron dragon made him wroth, so he cut down the post, hacked the sign into pieces, and cast them into the river. One of the dragon’s heads washed up on the Quiet Isle many years later, though by that time it was red with rust.”
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The water had grown cool. When Jaime opened his eyes, he found himself staring at the stump of his sword hand. ‘The hand that made me Kingslayer.’ The goat had robbed him of his glory and his shame, both at once. ‘Leaving what? Who am I now?’
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“All you have I gave you. You would do well to remember that, bastard. As for this … Reek … if you have not ruined him beyond redemption, he may yet be of some use to us. Get the keys & remove those chains from him, before you make me rue the day I raped your mother.”
-Roose
They are my children, she told herself, and if the maegi spoke truly, they are the only children I am ever like to have.
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He saw the longships of the Ironborn adrift & burning on a boiling blood-red sea. He saw his brother on the Iron Throne again, but Euron was no longer human. He seemed more squid than man, a monster fathered by a kraken of the deep, his face a mass of writhing tentacles.
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He had not noticed that before, no more than he had noticed the picture on the tapestry, a scene of Nymeria & her ten thousand ships. I see only her. A dragon might have been peering in the window, & I would never have seen anything but her breasts, her face, her smile.
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At night Tyrion would oft hear her praying. A waste of words. If there are gods to listen, they are monstrous gods who torment us for their sport. Who else would make a world like this, so full of bondage, blood, & pain? Who else would shape us as they have?
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“Fire consumes.” Lord Beric stood behind them, and there was something in his voice that silenced Thoros at once. “It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing.”
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