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“Fates be with you...”

“Wise man trusts not to chance-meeting on the road in this land.”

"Trusting someone is one thing, lad. Trusting them with your life is another entirely."

“The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their name. You should not look in when the candles are lit.”

"The mind has its own natural defenses; as I said, it already goes to some lengths to protect our thoughts."

"Every man who holds a sword in his hand, holds murder in his heart."

“No, the burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart.”

“None knows what the new day shall bring him.”

”Dark have been my dreams of late, but I feel as one new-awakened.”

Reading for Read Christie 2026.
August's Theme: Beloved Duo

Sidenote: The official and alternative books by Read Christie are all Tommy & Tuppence's. Since I'm not a fan (and I cannot stand Tuppence), I decided to go with a Poirot and Hastings book instead.

Some of my kin look just like tress now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers."

"They are proud and willful, but they are true-hearted, generous in thought and deed; bold but not cruel; wise but unlearned..."


There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."

“I suppose . . . even if you find what you're afraid of, you'll still have a choice moving forward. If you're a good man now . . . well, what you did in the past is in the past. There's no reason you can't continue to be a good man in the future.”

“All that I wanted, I received
All that I dreamed, I achieved
All that I feared, I conquered
All that I hated, I destroyed
All that I loved, I saved
And so I lay down my head, weary with despair
For all that I needed, I lost.”

“There are always reasons for these things.”

... Huh.

Following along with the audiobook with my paperback copy, which was a gift from my mom (to cheer me up after experiencing hives caused by my grandmother and for how miserable she's made our month be overall), and there are times where the audiobook's dialogue is completely different to the one in the book. I wonder why that is. 🤔

"Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight."

““Death is a part of life.”

Ugh.

I might have to dnf because once it reached chapter 10, the audiobook decided to have issues. I deleted the files, re-downloaded them in the hopes it would play smoothly, and it's still breaking up sentences. 🤦

"The living have no place at the feasts of the dead."

". . . madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds it breath to see how it will land."

"Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him."

". . . a king protects his people, or he is no king at all."

"Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next."

He's back. Lord Voldemort Littlefinger is back.

(I do not like Littlefinger, not one bit, sorry not sorry.)

"I cannot live without my soul."

". . . when your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say 'I am the king' is no true king at all."

"You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe."

"Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know."

... oh.

The wedding happened. The infamous one. I remember people talking about it when it happened.

I assumed the infamous event was going to happen the last couple of pages of the book, so...

... sighs

"Sometimes being alone is an advantage."

"Fire consumes. It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing."

Brienne: "Why come back?"
Jaime: "I dreamed of you."
👀

Catelyn: If I despair, my grief will consume me.
Oh, Catelyn. I feel for her, I do, but I am so tired of her treatment/opinion when it comes to Jon. 🫩

"It's so terrible when you don't have the strength to do the right thing."

"The waiting is the hardest part."