Fiction | Wars Of Martin G.R.R.

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G.O.T. | MANLY IMPETENCES | “A little wine now and then, a woman moaning in bed, the feeling of having a horse between your legs? By the seven hells, (…) I want to hit someone.”

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G.O.T. | FEMALE ATTRIBUTES | “You saw its beauty, but not the iron underneath.”

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G.O.T. | POWER FAVORS | “The Lannister appetite for office and honor seemed to know no bounds.”

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G.O.T. | FAMILY IMPOSITIONS | “Squires, they say. I [Robert] say they are more like pig farmers dressed in silk.”

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G.O.T. | BRANDS OF LIFE | “Only a man who has been burned really knows what hell is like.”

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G.O.T. | SURVEILLANCES | “The Red Keep is full of eyes.”

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G.O.T. | ILLUMINATIONS | “In her [Dany’s] mind’s eye, all the doors were red.”

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G.O.T. | NATURAL AMBITIONS |”People pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends.”

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G.O.T. | NEW UNDERSTANDINGS | “Your brother Rhaegar was the last dragon and died (…). Viserys is less than the shadow of a serpent.”

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G.O.T. | AUTONOMIES | “There was a hollow place inside her [Dany], the place where her fear had been.”

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G.O.T. | FAMILY LINKS | “You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood runs through your hearts.”

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G.O.T. | ARROGANCIES | “If a man paints a target on his chest, he must expect that sooner or later someone will send him an arrow.”

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G.O.T. | DISIMULATIONS | [Eddard] “I must represent this hoax as if nothing is wrong.”

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G.O.T. | TRUTH AS LIES | “It’s best not to tell anyone. I spent years convincing the court that I am evil and cruel.”

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G.O.T. | MISCOMMENDATIONS | [Renly] “My royal brother loves tournaments and feasts (…), and abhors what he calls ‘counting coppers’.”

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G.O.T. | INFERENCES OF POWER | “…all this talk of currency, crops and justice bores [the King]. Therefore the government of the kingdom falls upon us. ”

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G.O.T. | NEED FOR CONTROL | “…why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man must immediately know what is on the other side?”

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G.O.T. | ORGANIC KNOWLEDGE | [Varys] “Sometimes he knows things before they happen.”

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G.O.T. | COMPLEX PUZZLES | “… and the crow looked back at him. He had three eyes, and the third was filled with terrible wisdom.”

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G.O.T. | DEFENSE MECHANISMS | “Most men are quicker to deny a hard truth than to face it.”

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G.O.T. | POWER TOOLS | [Tyron] “Even a scrawny, twisted, ugly little boy can look down on the world when he’s sitting on the back of a dragon.”

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G.O.T. | INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES | [Tyron] “I have a realistic understanding of my strengths and weaknesses. The mind is my weapon.”

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G.O.T. | LIMITATIONS OF INFLUENCE | [Eddard] “He was no Jon Arryn, able to check the defendant’s impetuosity and instill wisdom in him.”

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G.O.T. | POLITICAL STRUGGLES | [Robert] “I’m sick to death of secrecy, bickering and affairs of state.”

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G.O.T. | POWER STRATAGEMS | “And they conquered the city by treachery.”

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G.O.T. | BLIND OBEDIENCE | “The dragon does not beg.”

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G.O.T. | UNPREDICTABLE OPPONENTS | “Give me honorable enemies instead of ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep better at night.”

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G.O.T. | PROJECTIONS OF BEING | “…the light from within threw its sharp shadow across the courtyard, and just for a moment [the Dwarf] stood tall like a king.”

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G.O.T. | LIMITATIONS OF BEING | [Tyron] “All dwarves will be bastards, but not all bastards need to be dwarves.”

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G.O.T. | SELF-ESTEEM | [Tyron] “Never forget who you are, because the world will not remember.”

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G.O.T. | EXISTENTIAL STIGMAS | “A bastard had to learn to notice things, to read the truth people hid behind their eyes.”

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G.O.T. | UNCONFESSABLE VALUES | [Robert and Eddard] “Echoes resounded through the darkness, and around them the dead of Winterfell seemed to watch with cold, disapproving eyes.”

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G.O.T. | SHIELD OF POWER | [Robert] “What the king dreams the Hand builds [or] (…) The king eats … and the hand picks up the shit.”

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G.O.T. | SELFISH APPLICANTS | [Robert] “…flatterers and idiots… Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other one can’t find it.”

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G.O.T. | MUTISM | “Some old wounds never really healed, and they bled again at the first word.”

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G.O.T. | BRANCH | [Robert] “ – In my dreams I kill him every night (…) – A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves.”

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G.O.T. | SUBTLE REPORTS | “Dany saw the tiny hint of a smile playing on the man’s [Illyrio]’s full lips, but his brother didn’t notice a thing.”

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G.O.T. | CUNNING | [Illyrio] “- I take him for a king. Kings lack the caution of common men.”

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G.O.T. | MISFORTUNE | “Years before, they had been forced to sell the last of their treasures, and now, even the money they had gotten for their mother’s crown was gone.”

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G.O.T. | ITEMPERANCE | “Her mother had died giving birth to her, and for that fact her brother Viserys had never forgiven her.”

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G.O.T. | IRASCIBLE INTIMIDATION | “You don’t want to wake the dragon, do you? His fingers twisted, a cruel, hard pinch through the thick fabric of his tunic. Would you like?”

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G.O.T. | OBJECTIFICATION | “Let them see that she is now shaped like a woman – the brother’s fingers lightly brushed her budding breasts and pressed on a nipple.”

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G.O.T. | RESIGNATION | [Dany] “(…) it was better not to question her brother while he was weaving his webs of dreams.”

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G.O.T. | AMBITIONS | “Viserys (…) The magister knows I will not forget my friends when I ascend to the throne.”

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G.O.T. | BARGAINS | “Dany[13] (…) Tonight you must look like a princess. (…) [he knew] that such gifts rarely come without price there, in the free city of Pentos.”

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G.O.T. | SIGNS | “Robert coming over? (…) a direwolf dead in the snow, with a broken horn in its throat.”

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G.O.T. | ANCESTRAL FORCES | “…the heart tree at its back, the pale bark and red eyes, watching, listening, thinking its long, slow thoughts.”

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G.O.T. | MAGIC | “Valyria . . . when blacksmiths work their metals with spells as well as hammers.”

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G.O.T. | THE INEVITABLE | “ Rickon (…) He has to learn to face his fears. He won’t be three years old forever. And winter is coming.”

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G.O.T. | RIDDLES | “Winterfell (…) the gods who lived there (…) nameless and faceless from the green forest they shared with the lost children of the forest.”

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G.O.T. | BEASTS | “These are not dogs that ask for a pet or dodge a kick. A direwolf is capable of ripping a man’s arm off…”

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G.O.T. | LIABILITY | “…the man who passes sentence must handle the sword. If you take a man’s life, he must look him in the eye and listen to his last words.”

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G.O.T. | COURAGE | “Can a man remain brave if he is afraid?”

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 08/11/2022
G.O.T. | PREMATURITY | “Jon was fourteen, he was already experienced in justice.”

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 07/11/2022
G.O.T. | REPRESENTATIONS | He took off his father’s face, Bran thought, and put on that of Lord Stark of Winterfell.

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 06/11/2022
G.O.T. | SUPERNATURAL | “… And women of his lay with the [White Wanderers] during the Long Night and bore terrible half-human children.”

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 05/11/2022
G.O.T.  WITHOUT INNOCENCE | “…to see the decapitation of a man (…) and Bran[7] rode with the others, nervous and excited.”

🔸🔸🔸🔸 11/04/2022
G.O.T. 🇧🇷 HIDDEN FORCES | “The right eye was open. His pupil burned blue. Via.”

🔸🔸🔸 03/11/2022
G.O.T. 🇧🇷 WHITE VAGANTS | “… his voice was like the breaking of ice on a winter lake, and the words mocking.”

🔸🔸 02/11/2022
G.O.T. 🇧🇷 FEAR | “… it filled his stomach like a meal he was unable to digest”.

11/01/2022
With MARTIN’S permission: – valar morghulis or “all men must die”.