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A Game of Thrones Quotes

25 of the best book quotes from A Game of Thrones
01
Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?
02
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.
03
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
04
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
05
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
06
Winter is coming.
07
When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
08
If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
09
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
10
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
11
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
12
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
13
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
14
What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother’s smile?
15
We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
16
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?
17
If I look back I am lost.
18
Nothing burns like the cold.
19
Laughter is poison to fear.
20
Every flight begins with a fall.
21
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
22
“Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”
23
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.
24
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
25
The man who fears losing has already lost.
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