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“Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'"
"No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Khiruev made a point of consciously sabotaging all her relationships by choosing unsuitable partners on the grounds that this beat doing in unconsciously. Khiruev was most ashamed of the time she'd picked out a man who'd been a refugee and who begged her over and over to leave the Kel and do something safe. Khiruev had never contemplated abandoning her career, least of all for a lover who grated on her almost from the beginning. It wasn't anything the man did so much as the constant reminder that Khiruev was in the business of creating refugees when she wasn't creating orphans and corpses.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem