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“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. Jon Snow”
“If there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her. It was the living men she feared,”
“The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.”
“A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.”
“Mine is the blood of the dragon.”
“Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.”
“Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.”
“If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.”
“They close their eyes to the onion.”
“That’s no law, just a sword. Happens I got one too.”
“Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
“Brotherfucker, brotherfucker, brotherfucker.”
“I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.”
“Stannis Baratheon turned away from the window, and the ghosts who moved upon the southern sea.”
“My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish”
“It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.”
“...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.”
“The world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honour of kings.”