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The first time I beheld her, I thought she was a goddess come to earth, the Maid herself made flesh.

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Леннарт Лидден знает: завоевание доверия — искусство, требующее терпения и тонкости, сродни ювелирному. Каждый шаг, точно огранка драгоценного камня, выверенно и аккуратно прид��ет видимости части нового творения. Но будет ли столь же легко сотворить общую историю и придать ей блеска?

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The battle screamed about Lord Robert and Prince Rhaegar both, and by the will of the gods, or by chance-or perhaps by design-they met amidst the shallows of the ford. The two knights fought valiantly upon their destriers, according to all accounts. For despite his crimes, Prince Rhaegar was no coward.

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Arwyn Oakheart is the head of House Oakheart and the Lady of Old Oak. Arwyn is tiny and delicate. She is a widow.

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The wielder of Dawn is always given the title of Sword of the Morning, and only a knight of House Dayne who is deemed worthy can carry it.

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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.

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Before the Andals came to Westeros, House Bracken ruled this river. We were kings and the Blackwoods were our vassals, but they betrayed us and usurped the crown.

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The Tullys drew their strength from the river, and it was to the river they returned when their lives had run their course.

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She was, beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time.

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❝I remember Robert as he was the day he took the throne, every inch a king. A thousand other women might have loved him with all their hearts. What did he do to make you hate him so?❞ ❝The night of our wedding feast, the first time we shared a bed, he called me by your sister's name. He was on top of me, in me, stinking of wine, and he whispered Lyanna.❞ ❝I do not know which of you I pity most.❞

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❝One day you must tell me all. The good and the bad. There is some good to be said of my father, surely?❞ ❝There is, your Grace. Of him, and those who came before him. Your grandfather Jaehaerys and his brother, their father Aegon, your mother… and Rhaegar. Him most of all.❞ ❝I wish I could have known him.❞

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❝You have courage. Not battle courage perhaps but … I don't know … a kind of woman's courage.❞

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Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him.

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If I led a quarter of a million men to death, would they call me Gerold the Great? I shall remain Darkstar, I think. At least it is mine own.

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❝House Rowan of Goldengrove is one of the most prominent and old families from the Reach, its dominions extending all along its northern borders. This may mean that the Rowans were made Marshall of the Northmarch to replace the declining House Osgrey, now their bannermen. Their blazon is a golden tree on silver. Their words are not mentioned in the books.❞

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❝Are you the Sword of the Morning now?❞ ❝Men call me Darkstar, and I am of the night.❞

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❝Они много говорили и много молчали, рукодельничная или изучая большую книгу сказок, написанную крупными буквами. Офелия отнюдь не шутила, когда предлагала помочь Агнете научиться читать. Они шли к цели маленькими, но упорными шажками. Иногда их уроки прерывала нянька, приносящая Мелиссу матери в определенные часы — девушки совершенно забывались, пока одна пыталась разобраться в круговерти замысловатых значков, именуемых буквами, а вторая терпеливо поправляла её и объясняла, почему то или иное слово пишется так, а читается иначе. Однажды они посмеялись над несчастным переписчиком, который от невнимательности и вероятной усталости вместо слова “принятый” написал “приятный”. Вышло “приятный обычай гласил, что каждый претендент на руку принцессы должен пройти три испытания, связанных с огнём, водой и сталью”.❞