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When his once-thick golden hair had begun to recede, he commanded his barber to shave his head; Lord Tywin did not believe in half measures. He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his sidewhiskers, two great thickets of golden hair that covered his cheeks from ear to jaw.
“No men in the Seven Kingdoms are as bold and true as the knights of the Vale.”
-Lysa Arryn, Tyrion V, A Game Of Thrones #ASongOfIceAndFire 🎨FadlyRhomdhani
“Even when Lord Gargalen told me that I had a sister, I assured him that she must shortly die. Yet she lived, by the Mother’s mercy. And a year later Oberyn arrived, squalling & kicking. I was a man grown when they were playing in these pools. Yet here I sit, and they are gone.”
Penny wrapped her arms around the sow’s head, & murmured reassurances. Looking at the two of them, it was hard to know who was comforting whom. The girl deserves better than a pig, he thought. An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.
If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor. Castle Black had no godswood, only a small sept and a drunken septon, but Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.
You cannot speak to him, try as you might. I know. I have my own ghosts, Bran. A brother I loved, a brother I hated, a woman I desired. Through the trees I see them still, but no word has ever reached them. The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
“Only Renly could vex me so with a piece of fruit. He brought his doom on himself with his treason, but I did love him, Davos. I know that now. I swear, I will go to my grave thinking of my brother’s peach.”
-Davos II, A Clash Of Kings
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“Everyone wants something, Alayne. And when you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
-Sansa VI, A Storm Of Swords
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He might as well wish for another thousand men, and maybe a dragon or three.
-Jon VIII, A Storm Of Swords
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The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jaime had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur & slow & even stop, how the past & the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, & thought fled, & even your body.