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581 pages, ebook
First published January 27, 2011
“All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.”
“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
“Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.”
“The smell of it. The feel of it." He rubbed one hand up and down the stained sheath of his sword, making a faint swishing sound. "War is honest. There's no lying to it. You don't have to say sorry here. Don't have to hide. You cannot. If you die? So what? You die among friends. Among worthy foes. You die looking the Great Leveller in the eye. If you live? Well, lad that's living, isn't it? A man isn't truly alive until he's facing death." Whirrun stamped his foot into the sod. "I love war!."…Well he is called Cracknut after all.
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
“Armour …’ mused Whirrun, licking a finger and scrubbing some speck of dirt from the pommel of his sword, ‘is part of a state of mind … in which you admit the possibility … of being hit.”
“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
“All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you’re given. You won’t always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.”