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I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC
George R. R. Martin
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George R. R. Martin
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 20
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He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
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When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
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...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.
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Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.
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His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.
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Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
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Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
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Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
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Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
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Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.
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