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Strange thing, that–the fewer years you have to lose the more you fear the losing of ’em. Maybe a man just gets a stock of courage when he’s born, and wears it down with each scrape he gets into.
“I try not to damn a man on his choice o’ friends alone.”
Savour the little moments, son, that’s my advice. They’re what life is. All the things that happen while you’re waiting for something else.
When you’re planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.
What is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone who makes up for your shortcomings? Someone you can work with. Work on.
Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.
It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.
There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.”
“Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, ’cause fewer men have it.”
Some men are made for doing violence. Some are meant for planning it. Then there are a special few whose talent is for taking the credit.
Hal felt like a stranger. He knew nothing about who she really was. How can two people ever really know each other? Everyone went through life alone, fighting their own battle.
“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
“War is honest. There’s no lying to it. You don’t have to say sorry here. Don’t have to hide. You cannot. If you die? So what? You die among friends. Among worthy foes. You die looking the Great Leveller in the eye. If you live? Well, lad, that’s living, isn’t it? A man isn’t truly alive until he’s facing death.” Whirrun
“If you can rely on one thing in a battle, it’s that men rarely do what’s sensible.”
