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but your brother said, ‘I will not kill a man for loyalty, nor for fighting well,’ and sent his own maester to tend Ser Barristan’s wounds.” He gave the king a long cool look. “Would that man were here today.”
-Eddard VIII, A Game Of Thrones
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“Mercy is never a mistake, Lord Renly,” Ned replied. “On the Trident, Ser Barristan here cut down a dozen good men, Robert’s friends and mine. When they brought him to us, grievously wounded and near death, Roose Bolton urged us to cut his throat…
Goodbrother offered him the comforts of the castle for the night,but the priest declined. “Comforts I shall know in the Drowned God’s watery halls beneath the waves. We are born to suffer, that our sufferings might make us strong.”
-The Prophet, A Feast For Crows
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“Some lies are love,” Petyr had assured her.
-Sansa I, A Feast For Crows
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Jeyne Poole confessed herself frightened by the look of Jalabhar Xho, an exile prince from the Summer Isles, but when she saw young Lord Beric Dondarrion, with hair like red gold & his black shield slashed by lightning, she pronounced herself willing to marry him on the instant.
He wished Robb were with them now. ‘I’d tell him I could fly, but he wouldn’t believe, so I’d have to show him. I bet that he could learn to fly too, him and Arya and Sansa, even baby Rickon and Jon Snow. We could all be ravens and live in Maester Luwin’s rookery.’
On his throne of roots, half-corpse half-tree, Lord Brynden seemed less a man than some ghastly statue made of twisted wood, old bone,& rotted wool. The only thing that looked alive in the pale ruin that was his face was his one red eye, burning like the last coal in a dead fire.
“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”
-Theon II, A Clash Of Kings
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All the strength had left her limbs. She could not move. Even her heart had ceased to beat. She felt a hand on her bare breast, twisting her nipple. Teeth found her throat. A mouth descended, licking, sucking, biting…
Then indigo turned to orange, & whispers turned to screams.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
-Eddard I, A Game Of Thrones
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