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"There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe."

"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."

"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."

"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."

"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."

"Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life."
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"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."


"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."


"No, said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."


"Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend."


"It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?"


"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing-but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."
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