“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

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“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.

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“The dragon has three heads.”

🎨Istrandar

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“Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king?”

-Robb Stark
🎨MikeSMiller

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“It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while… They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”

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The grounds seemed deserted this morning, with so many rangers off at the brothel in Mole’s Town…
As they passed the sept, he heard voices raised in song. ‘Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods.’ Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

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