My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
A man who won't listen can't hear.
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow
Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.
Reading. That was the sport I was good at.
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.