"His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night."

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"It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Imagery, Photography, Time, Innocence, Memory

"A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air."

Christopher Paolini, American Author

Imagery, Light, Beauty, Stillness

"The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Imagery, Sky, Beauty, Evening

"She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Imagery, Appearance, Contrast, Chaos, Nightmare

"Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen, with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair- He took her bag."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Imagery, Nature, Innocence, Beauty, Romance

"So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane and acerb."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Imagery, Poetry, Nature, Freshness, Detail

"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder."

Robert Jordan, American Author

Imagery, Storm, Dance, Destruction, Power

"The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Imagery, Atmosphere, Life, Environment

"His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

Death

"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

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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."

Reflection

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

Duty

"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."

War

"I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?"

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"A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air."

"The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky."

"She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare."

"Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen, with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair- He took her bag."

"So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane and acerb."

"We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder."

"The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents."

"His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night."

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

"Flies are the dead man's revenge."

"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

"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."

"A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands."

"Wolves and women wed for life."

"Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage."

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

"On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong."

"I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?"