The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think--. . . There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.
The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.
Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere. ' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC