Game of Thrones

On the shelf

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  A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

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  Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? / That is the only time a man can be brave.

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  Fear cuts deeper than swords.

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  Oh, my sweet summer child, what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north.

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  The things I do for love.

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  We Do Not Sow.

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  Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. …

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  And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

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  Ours is the Fury.

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  Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.

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  Hear Me Roar!

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  What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

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  When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

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  Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

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  There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

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  What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger.

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  Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less. A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

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  You've ended that. I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

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  Sleep is good, and books are better.

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  Dunk the lunk, thick as a castle wall.

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  Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.

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  A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

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  Kill the boy and let the man be born.

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  He won't be a boy forever. And winter is coming.

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  The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

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  Winter is coming.

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  A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.

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  Valar morghulis.

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  A Lannister always pays his debts.

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  When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

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  The night is dark and full of terrors.

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  You know nothing, Jon Snow.

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  Hold the door!

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  Dracarys.

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  Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

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  What do we say to the god of death? / Not today.

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  Fire and blood.

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  That's what I do: I drink and I know things.

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  A girl has no name.

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  Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.

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  Any man who must say, “I am the king,” is no true king.

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  Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.

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  I choose violence.

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  Dreams didn’t make us kings. Dragons did.

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  History does not remember blood. It remembers names.