Quotes
If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?
Is a secret still a secret if everyone knows it?
Laughter is poison to fear.
"The Watch needs good men" he told them as they set out, "but you lot will have to do."
Some people are just no good at not being in charge.
p. 57
That one is so sharp he will cut himself.
p. 98
These precautions, perhaps because they had been taken, proved unnecessary.
Hmm...hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.
The ceremony was long and intricate, probably none of them could have explained why half of it was done, and the explanations for the other half would probably have been thoroughly incorrect.
I participate, therefore I am.
Mrs Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper — a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
I have been taught to look upon those means, by which men raise themselves to riches and distinction, as being beyond my heeding, and beneath my care. I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
