"Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I'd return the slap, if I took you for a man."
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."
"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."
"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him."
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
"What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."
"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."
"Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow."
"The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that."
"Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."
"Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night."
"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."
"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."
"The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice..."
"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward."
"A true man does what he will, not what he must."
-from A Song of Ice and Fire.
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