A Game of Thrones
Author: George R. R. Martin Category: Fantasy Published: August 6, 1996 Language: English File Size: 5.7 MB Tags: Adventure | Epic | Fantasy | Fiction | Politics | Science fiction |
Description:
Theme and Summary:
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin explores the theme of
- Power Struggles – The fight among characters and houses for control and authority
- Family Loyalty – The importance of staying true to one’s family and protecting them
- Betrayal – Characters turning against each other for personal gain
Famous Quotes:
- “Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.”
- Fear cuts deeper than swords.
- When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
- Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
- If I look back I am lost.
- Every flight begins with a fall.
- Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
- Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.
- The man who fears losing has already lost.
- Nothing burns like the cold.
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Laughter is poison to fear.
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“When it comes to swords, a queen is only a woman after all.”
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“Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.”
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“This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names.”
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“Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.”
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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
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“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”
- “Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs.”
- “Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
- “In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.”
- “The world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.”
- “I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”
- “A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.”
- “Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong.”
- “He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark.”
- “War makes monsters of us all.”
- Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery.
- 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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