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January 28, 2019
“My mother told me that dead men sing no songs,” he put in.
A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
“Ours by blood right, taken from us by treachery, but ours still, ours forever. You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”
“The fire is in our blood.”
“Kings are a rare sight in the north.”
“What the king dreams,” he said, “the Hand builds.”
“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.”
“Pride is everything to a king, my lord. Robert came all this way to see you, to bring you these great honors, you cannot throw them back in his face.”
“Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.”
Balerion, Meraxes, Vhaghar.
My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind … and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” Tyrion tapped the leather cover of the book.
but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
querulously.
thaw
“Tell him that when you see him, milord, as it … as it please you. Tell him how beautiful she is.” “I will,” Ned had promised her. That was his curse. Robert would swear undying love and forget them before evenfall, but Ned Stark kept his vows. He thought of the promises he’d made Lyanna as she lay dying, and the price he’d paid to keep them.
Lithe
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon.
