“She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
― A Dance with Dragons
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
― A Dance with Dragons
“Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar”
― King of the Murgos
-Kheldar”
― King of the Murgos
“Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
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