Robert’s queen, Cersei Lannister, entered on foot with her younger children. The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate.

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“Mercy is never a mistake.”

-Eddard VI, AGOT
🎨amuelia

50 277

“What do you think a knight is for, girl? You think it’s all taking favors from ladies and looking fine in gold plate? Knights are for killing.”

-Sandor Clegane, Sansa IV, ACOK

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“Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends. I suppose it is the same for women.”

-Thoros of Myr, AFFC
🎨fawnilu

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And Robb. Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son born of Balon Greyjoy’s loins. Murdered at the Red Wedding, butchered by the Freys. I should have been with him. Where was I? I should have died with him.

-Theon I, ADWD
🎨Ninfra

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Loras Tyrell had been the last to face her wroth that day. He’d never courted her, had hardly looked at her at all, but he bore three golden roses on his shield that day, and Brienne hated roses. The sight of them had given her a furious strength.

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“Think on my offer, ser. The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm… whilst if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.”

-Uthor Underleaf
🎨MikeSMiller

10 83

“Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.”

-Jaime Lannister
🎨knifeears

32 184

How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have?

A thousand eyes, and one.

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She had been Arry and Weasel too, and Squab and Salty, Nan the cupbearer, a grey mouse, a sheep, the ghost of Harrenhal … but not for true, not in her heart of hearts. In there she was Arya of Winterfell, the daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and Lady Catelyn.

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“You never knew Lyanna as I did, Robert,” Ned told him. “You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath.”


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“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you … and I need both of you, gods help me.”

-Eddard Stark
🎨joyjuhee

56 207

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

-Brynden Tully
🎨lesliejlee

43 213

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

68 290

“The dragon has three heads.”

🎨Istrandar

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