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“I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman’s perfume.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“It was bitingly cold up here, and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“trays of pastries from his castle kitchens, cream swans and spun-sugar unicorns, lemon cakes in the shape of roses, spiced honey biscuits and blackberry tarts, apple crisps and wheels of buttery cheese.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“Upon it rested a slender crystal glass filled with a thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks. “Take and drink,” urged Pyat Pree. “Will it turn my lips blue?” “One draught will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you.” Dany raised the glass to her lips. The first sip tasted like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallowed it seemed to come to life within her. She could feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue was a taste like honey and anise and cream, like mother’s milk and Drogo’s seed,”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One