Will Martin
Will Martin
Will Martinis a New Zealand-born classical crossover singer...
summer morning cold
The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.
mistake love-you dwarves
Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'' ''It was your blade I needed'' Tyrion said, ''not your love.
kindness kissing littles
An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.
blood dragons lessons
I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.
stars children blow
When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen
mother queens mistake
Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
mother reality dying
We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.
orcs taxes policy
But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?
milk-and-honey honey milk
Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
men swings joy
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.
pride knights
A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword
sex stupid book
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years - you do have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can't imagine Hobbits having sex, can you? Well, sex is an important part of who we are. It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things. Leave it out, and you've got an incomplete world.
doubt guilt half
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
fall thinking should-have
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, ‘Fly, you fools’. What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.