Power resides where men believe it to reside.
("A Clash of Kings")
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You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. And this is only hranna, child. There are hundred kinds of grass out there, grasses as yellow as lemon and as dark as indigo, blue grasses and orange grasses and grasses as rainbows.George R.R. Martin
It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.
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I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
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Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
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My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
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His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.
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