It's different from the Northeast. The pace, we're almost stately by comparison. Courteous... And not as gossipy. We keep each other's secrets.
It’s impossible to repay something that has no price. Some say everything in the world–everything, with no exception–has a price. It’s not true. There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you.
— What is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?
— Eνerything.
The world now had a greater superficial wealth than the one they grew up in. Yet something had been lost. It seemed to them a crueller, harsher place, devoid of values. Worse, it seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
The contents of a man's letters are more valuable than the contents of ms purse.
When you can't afford something, it's really expensive. And then when you can afford it, it's free.