"You have to be careful around big people. Be jolly and playful with them, keep them smiling, make them… — George RR Martin
"You have to be careful around big people. Be jolly and playful with them, keep them smiling, make them laugh, that's what my father always said. Didn't your father ever tell you how to act with big people?"
"My father called them smallfolk," said Tyrion, "and he was not what you'd call a jolly man."
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Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.
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