Deftly

“All knights must bleed, Jaime," Ser Arthur Dayne had said, when he saw. "Blood is the seal of our devotion." With dawn he tapped him on the shoulder; the pale blade was so sharp that even that light touch cut through Jaime's tunic, so he bled anew. He never felt it. A boy knelt; a knight rose. The Young Lion, not the Kingslayer.
But that was long ago, and the boy was dead.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“No banquet was eternal. Everything had an end. Everything.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“After thirteen days of torment, Blood was at last allowed to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“but love and hate are two faces of the same coin,”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood