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“She’s just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it’s not, it’s the worst, it’s the worst feeling there is—incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like the view through a telescope. A feeling of total concentration, but total powerlessness. Which must be why it inspires so much murder: killing is the ultimate control.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
“Oberyn wanted vengeance for Elia. Now the three of you want vengeance for him. I have four daughters, I remind you. Your sisters. My Elia is fourteen, almost a woman. Obella is twelve, on the brink of maidenhood. They worship you, as Dorea and Loreza worship them. If you should die, must El and Obella seek vengeance for you, then Dorea and Loree for them? Is that how it goes, round and round forever? I ask again, where does it end?" Ellaria Sand laid her hands on the Mountain's head. "I saw your father die. Here is his killer. Can I take a skull to bed with me, to give me comfort in the night? Will it make me laugh, write me songs, care for me when I am old and sick?”
― A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust
― A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust
“fact isn’t a democratic process; if a thing isn’t true it isn’t true, even if everybody votes that it is.”
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
“And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”
― Unseen Academicals
― Unseen Academicals
“Now you know what an absolute monarchy is" she explained to Bill. "You can see how power corrupts." "I was corrupt before I had power," Random said, "and rich is better.”
― Trumps of Doom
― Trumps of Doom
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