Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
Arthur C. ClarkeRead
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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
The man who never reads lives only one.
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
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. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
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