“But for now, this one moment, Patty Uris simply stood silent with her hands clasped in front of her against her dark cotton skirt, her face solemn, her eyes huge. And now the look of almost holy solemnity began to transform itself into something else. The huge eyes began to bulge. Her mouth pulled back into a dreadful grin of horror. She wanted to scream and couldn’t. The screams were too big to come out.”
― It
― It
“A sword’s a sword, a helm’s a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you’re serving.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“The rain had driven everyone under their roofs. It beat down on Ned’s head, warm as blood and relentless as old guilts.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Hmmmm?” He looked around at her. She thought the look on his face was one of gentle abstraction, perhaps mixed with minor annoyance. It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.”
― It
― It
“The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
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