.. the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
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| — | George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings |
Of course you hate getting angry! You don’t like anything unpleasant, do you? You’re a slitherer-outer, that’s what you are! You slither away from anything you don’t like!
“
| — | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle |
Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.
“
| — | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle |
Now she was finding that there were some things she could only do when there were no excuses left.
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| — | Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle |
..the years leech a man’s memories, even those he vowed never to forget.
“
| — | George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
Opening your eyes is all that is needing. 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.
“
| — | George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
Only a man who’s been burned knows what hell is truly like.
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| — | George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.
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| — | George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
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| — | George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
We all need to be mocked from time to time lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.
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| — | George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones |
