“Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
“Can they love without a word for it?”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
“I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
“But the melancholy of Worlorn's dying forests had seeped into his flesh, and he saw Gwen through tainted eyes, a doll figure in a suit as faded as despair.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
“In the cool weak light the nightflames all had died, and the silent streets echoed death and desolation. Worlorn’s day. Yet it was twilight.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
“But I do exist. Remember that . . . This is not Avalon now, t'Larien, and today is not yesterday. It is a dying Festival world, a world without a code, so each of us must cling tightly to whatever codes we bring with us. (Jaan Vikary)”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Dying of the Light
George R.R. Martin
Born place: in Bayonne, New Jersey, The United States
Born date September 20, 1948
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“I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“There were multitudes of dependents fed at the great houses, and everywhere, according to means, a wide-open hospitality was maintained. Froude gives a notion of the style of living in earlier times by citing the details of a feast given when George Neville, brother of Warwick the king-maker, was made archbishop of York. There were present, including servants, thirty-five hundred persons. These are a few of the things used at the banquet: three hundred quarters of wheat, three hundred tuns of ale, one hundred and four tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thousand geese, two thousand pigs, — four thousand conies, four thousand heronshaws, four thousand venison pasties cold and five hundred hot, four thousand cold tarts, four thousand cold custards, eight seals, four porpoises, and so on.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase)
“Hey, just be grateful I’m old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian)
Are you serious? (Channon)
They’re not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Dragonswan
“There are two sides to that man. Thoughtless and thoughtful. Not sure he got the in-between gene.”
― Vi Keeland, quote from Stuck-Up Suit
“There are worse things than dying."
"Really?" said Meg.
"Of course," said the tech. "Living badly.”
― Belinda Bauer, quote from Rubbernecker
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