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I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

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• Love

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

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• Books

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

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• Love

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

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• Wisdom

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

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• Truth

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

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• Truth

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

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• Books

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.

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• Love

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

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• Life

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

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• Love

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

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• Writing

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

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• Inspirational

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

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• Humor

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

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• Books