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“It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Choosing … it has always hurt. And always will.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“You’re awful.” “I’m honest. It’s the world that’s awful.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones: The Story Continues: The Complete 5 Books

“I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“You are mad,” the godswife said hoarsely. “Is it so far from madness to wisdom?” Dany asked.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones: The Story Continues: The Complete 5 Books

“Age makes ruins of us all.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Nothing knits a broken realm together so quick as an invading army on its soil.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.”
― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The most insidious thing about bondage was how easy it was to grow accustomed to it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“I have been despised by better men than you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security. For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter. Rabbits, like most wild animals, suffer hardship.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune