“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.”
― By the Sea
― By the Sea
“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Our emotions were leading us to thoughts, and those thoughts were dictating our decisions, and our decisions were determining behaviors, and then the behaviors were shaping our relationships, all of which would take us back to either healthy or unhealthy thoughts.”
― Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
― Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“The greatest spiritual battle of our generation is being fought between our ears.”
― Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
― Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
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