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A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin · 1996

Skip the plot, everyone can find that. Readers keep the residue here: the sentence that survived after the cover closed.

Write your line

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What did A Game of Thrones leave in you?

One sentence. Forget the review voice. Write the line you'd underline and whisper to a friend on the train.

Live proof

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The line you carried will sit here, in print.

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A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin · 1996

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From the margins

10 lines · sorted by underlines · offline shelf

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When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. Cersei said it in book one. Nobody listened.
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Carried byPetra27 FEB 2026
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Winter is coming. The best warning label ever stitched on a banner.
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Carried byOwen27 MAR 2026
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Ned Stark's honor got him killed and saved the plot. Honesty has a tax bracket too.
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Carried byTheo27 APR 2026
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The Wall is 700 feet of dread and one old bear's ghost stories. Best world-building with snow.
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Carried byIlan27 MAY 2026
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Daenerys walked into fire and came out with dragons. Most expensive maternity leave ever.
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Carried byMira27 JUN 2026
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Tyrion read everything and still got underestimated. Books beat lineage, most of the time.
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Carried byGrace27 JUL 2026
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The Red Wedding broke a million readers in one chapter. I trust no feast since.
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Carried byDario27 AUG 2026
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Jon Snow took the black for honor and found a family of misfits. Found family, frozen edition.
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Carried byRosa27 SEP 2026
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Littlefinger's chaos is a ladder. Every office has one and the ladder usually wobbles.
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Carried byWren27 OCT 2026
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Carried out of it: power is a shadow on the wall. Sit closer to the torch, not the wall.
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Carried byVarys29 OCT 2026