"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."

Tension, Fear, Stillness, Choice, Fate

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"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."

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"Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, and those magnificent destriers shit everywhere."

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"A man should smell of sweat, not flowers."

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"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."

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"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

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"Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough."

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"One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right."

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"We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron."

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