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==Quotes== [[File: Aleksander-karcz-exchange-of-information.jpg|thumb|350px|Exchange of Information, by Aleksander Karcz Β© Fantasy Flight Games]] {{Quote|Dark wings, dark words, [[Old Nan]] always said, and of late the messenger ravens had been proving the truth of the proverb.{{Ref|AGOT|37}}|thoughts of [[Bran Stark]]}} {{Quote|'''Catelyn''': Theon, when you return to my uncle, tell him he is to place his best bowmen around the [[Twins]], day and night, with orders to bring down any raven they see leaving the battlements. I want no birds bringing word of [[Robb Stark|my son's]] movements to Lord [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]].<br> '''Theon''': Ser [[Brynden Tully|Brynden]] has seen to it already, my lady. A few more blackbirds, and we should have enough to bake a pie. I'll save you their feathers for a hat.{{Ref|AGOT|59}}|[[Catelyn Stark]] and [[Theon Greyjoy]]}} {{Quote|Most ravens will eat grain, but they prefer flesh. It makes them strong, and I fear they relish the taste of blood. In that they are like men ... and like men, not all ravens are alike. Doves and [[pigeon]]s can also be trained to carry messages, though the raven is a stronger flyer, larger, bolder, far more clever, better able to defend itself against [[hawk]]s ... yet ravens are black, and they eat the dead, so some godly men abhor them.{{Ref|AGOT|60}}|[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] to [[Jon Snow]]}} {{Quote|The [[crow]] is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood.{{Ref|AGOT|60}}|[[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] to [[Jon Snow]]}} {{Quote|'''Jon''': Have you been teaching them to talk?<br> '''Samwell''': A few words. Three of them can say snow.{{ref|ACOK|13}}|[[Jon Snow]] and [[Samwell Tarly]]}} {{Quote|'''Varys''': I bring dire tidings.<br> '''Tyrion''': You ought to dress in black feathers, Varys, you're as bad an omen as any raven.{{Ref|ACOK|44}}|[[Varys]] and [[Tyrion Lannister]]}} {{Quote|It was the [[children of the forest|singers]] who taught the [[First Men]] to send messages by raven ... but in those days, the birds would speak the words. The trees remember, but men forget, and so now they write the messages on parchment and tie them round the feet of birds who have never [[skinchanger|shared their skin]].{{Ref|ADWD|34}}|[[last greenseer|Lord Brynden]] to [[Bran Stark]]}}
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