A Feast for Crows is the fourth of seven planned novels in the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. The novel was first published on October 17, 2005, in the United Kingdom. A United States edition followed on in November of 2005.
War makes monsters of us all. ~ A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
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“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.” ~ The Old Bachelor by William Congreve
For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times had the darkness closed over a wild and terrific scene, and returning light as often brought but renewed distress, for the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost. ~ The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
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“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” ~ The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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“I’m tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn’t woman’s work. Any work is woman’s work that a woman can do well.” ~ Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
The sense of humor dies hard. ~ Personality Plus by Edna Ferber
They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors. ~ I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
“I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize.” ~ The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft
There were a Rattling and Rolling, Groaning, Screeching, and Hissing, such as no Things of this Earth cou’d raise up, and which must needs have come from those Caves that only black Magick can discover, and only the Divell unlock. ~ The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London
“Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body.” ~ The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
“Don’t think of what’s past!” said she. “I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?” ~ Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh. ~ Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations. All the comedy and terror of nightmare gripped his heart with pincers made of ice. ~ The Other Wing by Algernon Blackwood
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Sound itself appeared to be frozen up, all was so cold and still. ~ The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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“You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they can keep a stone in their pocket seven years, turn it at the end of that time, keep it seven years longer, and hurl it and hit their mark ‘at last.'” ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding. ~ Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
“From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville
With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night. ~ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens