“Blood of our blood mixed with the old blood, raised by an ancient blood not ours.”
― The Dragon Reborn
― The Dragon Reborn
“Love is nature’s way of clouding our common sense so we breed first and ask questions later.”
― Dragon's Debt
― Dragon's Debt
“And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.”
― The Dragon Reborn
― The Dragon Reborn
“He expected the other man to be dead—not many could survive a thirty-foot fall to cobblestones with another’s weight on top of him—but what he had not expected was to see the fellow’s dagger driven to the hilt into his own heart. Such an ordinary-looking man to have tried to kill him. Mat did not think he would even have noticed him in a crowded room.”
― The Dragon Reborn
― The Dragon Reborn
“But life will soon teach you the way things truly are. Everything ends in violence and death these days.”
― Knights: Four Novels
― Knights: Four Novels
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