"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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"It took me a lifetime."

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"No. No, I don't want my hands restrained."Yes. You do."

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"I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened."

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

Duty

"Strength to your arm, then."

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"Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?"

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"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

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"Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now."

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"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.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."

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"It is hard to die unmourned."

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