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Finally getting on the bandwagon ever since the trailer to the hbo series dropped.

“The realm needs good men, sir Duncan”

SO SO GOOD CANT WAIT FOR SEASON 2

“Why” he asked Pate.
“What am I to them!?”
“A knight who remembers his vows”, the smith said.

“But they were great heroes, brave men of noble birth, except for Florian. And what am I? Dunk of Flea Bottom? Or Ser Duncan the Tall?”

“McVries looked at him closely. 'Getting tired?'
'No, Garraty said. T've been tired for quite a while now? He looked at McVries with something like animosity.
'You mean you're not?'
McVries said, ‘Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon?’”

“I give my congratulations to the winner among your number, and my acknowledgement of valor to the losers?
He turned to the back of the jeep. There was a living silence. Garraty breathed deep of the spring air. It would be warm. A good day to walk”

"Let me ask you this—are you a Party member, Stigler?"
"No," Franz said. "I don't need a politician to make me go to war."

“Franz had come to think of The Party differently than he had as a boy in 1933. He had come to realize that The Party had turned Germany itself into a concentration camp. There were no elections. No freedom of press. No freedom of speech. No freedom to travel. No freedom to choose to serve in the military. No freedom to change things.“

"There was no mistaking the intensity of Oppenheimer's affection for his country," remarked Bloch. "His attachment was most apparent." Robert could also talk at length about literature, "especially the Hindu classics and the more esoteric Western writers." Pauli joked with Rabi that Oppenheimer
"seemed to treat physics as an avocation and psychoanalysis as a vocation."

“It was no accident that the young boy who would become known as the father of the atomic era was reared in a culture that valued independent inquiry, empirical exploration and the free-thinking mind—in short, the values of science”

A damn good start.

“You are mistaken," said he. "I will exert myself; and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes. But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his properties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus, while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment."

victor frankenstein…I hate you DOWNN

“Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred”

── .✦

“But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him”

“Of what a strange nature knowledge is! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock”

Cannot imagine how much weight he held from his own afflictions to then be taught about the history of mankind, the rise and fall of religious empires, and the inherent, biological roles of male and female 😭🫶🏽.

“Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures. One was old, with silver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love: the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry; yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.”