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“With a grin, I told her, "I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.”
“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to me. I wo...”
“Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay forever. But sudde...”
“Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can't imagine doing that”
“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.”
“People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.”
“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”
“The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.”
“We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!”
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,Let him combat for that of his neighbours;Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,And get knocked on the head for his labours.To do good t...”
“A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.”
“When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. I...”
“In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few it...”
“If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my remindersmy necessary thorns.”
“And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.”
“Matthew had won this battlea battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.”
“We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.”
“The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished un...”
“Fighting is better than this waiting, Brienne said. You dont feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When youre armored its hard for anyone to hurt you.Knig...”
“We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!”
