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When you're done drinking you'll tickle the innkeep to see where he keeps his gold. The way you always do.

I will say, I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.

The evening's rain had woken a hundred sleeping smells and made them ripe and strong again

Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor.

She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face, and stuck his tongue out, and the girl began to cry. 'What did you do to her?' Duck asked. 'I blew her a kiss. All girls cry when I kiss them.

Alysanne would like that," the king said. "She enjoys the company of clever women.

The woman's finally taken note of your charms." "No," Tyrion said. "No, the woman is hatching something.

Jinglebell jingled his bell

Not a queen," said Dany. "A khaleesi.

Honor set you on the kingsroad … and honor brought you back." "My friends brought me back," Jon said. "Did I say it was your honor?" Mormont

In a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf.

Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.

The Dothraki named the comet shierak qiya, the Bleeding Star.

place or that place. The rest of the time, they ate in his solar,

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

His political career was suddenly rekindled, as slavery became the central, driving issue of his political concerns.

Just finished reading the Koran—a good book and interesting.

We took over the so-called Royal Palace for a Headquarters and had it cleaned by prisoners for the first time since the Greek Occupation.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.