A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R. R. Martin Flashcards

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A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

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“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.”

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“I wish you were coming with us.” “Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

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“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” he heard his own voice saying, small and far away. And his father’s voice replied to him. “That is the only time a man can be brave.”

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“They’re not my brothers,” Jon snapped. “They hate me because I’m better than they are.” “No. They hate you because you act like you’re better than they are.

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why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?”

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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.”

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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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Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,

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Ned looked at the man evenly, saying nothing, waiting. He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions.

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Catelyn’s only strength was one elderly knight, armored in loyalty.

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“They say night’s beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.”

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I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I’ve won it.

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Fear cuts deeper than swords.

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“Mercy is never a mistake,

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“Torches just blind you.

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A king should never sit easy,

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sometimes a child’s innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

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How small the difference between victory and defeat, between life and death.

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A man of the Night’s Watch takes no wife and fathers no sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. And you are the only sons we shall ever know.

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A bruise is a lesson, she told herself, and each lesson makes us better.

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“My words lied. My eyes and my arm shouted out the truth, but you were not seeing.”

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The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.”

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Fear cuts deeper than swords,

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a long summer always meant a long winter.

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A man who won’t listen can’t hear.”

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Laughter is poison to fear.

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Whenever his father’s eyes were on him, he became uncomfortably aware of all his deformities and shortcomings.

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“No sword is strong until it’s been tempered,”

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

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“A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.”

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Boys might play with swords, but it took a lord to make a marriage pact, knowing what it meant.

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Honor the steel with deeds, not words.”

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“for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.”

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A khal who could not ride could not rule,

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when a man fights, his arms and legs and thoughts must be as one.”

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A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.”

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“Two battles do not make a war,”

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I was a child yesterday. Today I am a woman. Tomorrow I will be old.

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“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”

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The more fiercely the man burned in life, the brighter his star will shine in the darkness.

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The devil is in the details, they say. A book this size has a lot of devils, any one of which will bite you if you don’t watch out. Fortunately, I know a lot of angels.

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