Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.


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Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
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A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
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Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
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Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
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A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
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He has hands like two white spiders.
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He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.
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A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey
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But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon’s gullet.
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Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it.
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Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.
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Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
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In King's Landing there are two sorts of people; the players and the pieces.
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All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. The Stark colo...
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Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You ...
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There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth...
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The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled aro...
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It takes courage to admit fear.
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
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Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
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Some men think because they're afraid to do.
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You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.
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Harsh justice is still justice.
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Never forget what you are the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be us...
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A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
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We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister.

“Pride?” Catelyn snapp...
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Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—”
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Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die.”
His chains chinked softly. “I...
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I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not wa...
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I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
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Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
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The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.
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I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
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A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.
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No man is accursed as the kinslayer.
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The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
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It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
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Wolves never cry.
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They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.
The hills that split asunder an...
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The watcher on the walls. The sword in the darkness.
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Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a l...
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It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
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He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel,...
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Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
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Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.
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Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
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and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
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Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.
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Oh, yes. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will. I know.
-Maester Aemon Targaryen, A G...
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Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
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Better to live shamed than die proud.
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The crow commands, the captive must obey.
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I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
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Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.
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My enemies are legion.
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How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
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You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wol...
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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
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Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work ag...
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Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
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