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.
George R. R. MartinKnights die in battle,โ Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. โAs ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.
George R. R. MartinPerhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
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