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"She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood."
"I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self."
"I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong."
"You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart."
"I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices."
"I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go."
"The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true."
"all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt."
"One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually."
"Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things."
"O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote."
"Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable."
"Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means."
"The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm."
"The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work."
"I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own."
"We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes."
"The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter."
"He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative."
"Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain"
