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June 24, 2023 - March 17, 2024
“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” “That is the only time a man can be brave,”
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,
every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.”
relentless as old guilts.
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.
A man who won’t listen can’t hear.”
“too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?”
“The madness of mercy,”
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
He has an old man’s caution and a young man’s ambition,
“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.”
I was a child yesterday. Today I am a woman. Tomorrow I will be old.
If I look back I am lost.
thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.
A lady’s armor is courtesy,
“No doubt. As loyal as a deer surrounded by wolves.”
“Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.
“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”
“Is that a crow I hear, calling the raven black?
“The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.
Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.
she prayed for justice, the strength to seek it and the wisdom to know it,
The living should smile, for the dead cannot.”
The Qartheen wept often and easily; it was considered a mark of the civilized man.
Tyrion says that people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.”
Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know.
has a thin skin and a sharp tongue,
You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
“Only a starving man begs bread from a beggar,”
“A man who fears battle wins no victories,
If the bricks aren’t well made, the wall falls down.
“The day you make them all is the day you stop improving.”
“Some men think because they are afraid to do.”
“There is a difference between fear and caution.”
A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant.
“No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.
On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow too great to be borne, the angel takes us by the hand to lead us to the nightlands, where the stars burn ever bright.
“If sinners speak, why should the righteous listen?”
“Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.”
the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.
The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid,
For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction.
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.”
