# veteransday

‘Boys believe nothing can hurt them,’ his doubt whispered. ‘Grown men know better.’

-Theon Greyjoy

33 131
2020-01-17

The Qohorik hesitated. Half his men were drunk, the northmen stone sober, & there were twice as many. Some of the crossbowmen had reloaded by now. “Pull them out,” Hoat said, & then to Jaime, “I hath chothen to be merthiful. Tell your lord father.”

-Vargo Hoat

10 53
2020-01-12

“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife,” Ygritte told him, “but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.” She raised her chin defiantly and gave her thick red hair a shake.

🎨CJUK

26 133
2020-01-10

Her grandmother snorted. “Gallant, yes, and charming, and very clean. He knew how to dress and he knew how to smile and he knew how to bathe, and somehow he got the notion that this made him fit to be king.”

-Olenna Tyrell
🎨paolopuggioni

24 121
2019-12-28

‘I am blood of the dragon,’ she told herself. ‘I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.’

25 148
2019-12-27

“Tell me, Alayne—which is more dangerous, the dagger brandished by an enemy, or the hidden one pressed to your back by someone you never even see?”

-Petyr Baelish

25 133
2019-12-23

“Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,” he told Haldon, “the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It’s the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble.”

-Tyrion Lannister

12 67
2019-12-20

“The frightened child who sheltered in my manse died on the Dothraki sea, and was reborn in blood and fire. This dragon queen who wears her name is a true Targaryen.”

-Illyrio Mopatis

37 169
2019-12-16

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all … a day … an hour …

-Catelyn Stark
🎨NataschaRoosli

29 128
2019-12-15

“This girl’s to be your queen,” the Imp told Joffrey. “Have you no regard for her honor?”

“I’m punishing her.”

“For what crime? She did not fight her brother’s battle.”

“She has the blood of a wolf.”

“And you have the wits of a goose.”

🎨bubug

35 208
2019-12-10

“Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”

-Bran Stark
🎨JennyDolfen

48 163
2019-12-08

Queen Cersei laughed. “Wait until you birth a child, Sansa. A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough … and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.”

🎨Nachan

17 98
2019-12-06

Rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman’s name.

48 183
2019-12-05

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

-Jaime Lannister

46 167
2019-12-02

They are my children, she told herself, and if the maegi spoke truly, they are the only children I am ever like to have.

-Daenerys Targaryen
🎨Didier Graffet

24 122
2019-11-27

“Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.”

-Roose Bolton
🎨Jortagul

23 113
2019-11-15

The sight was so grotesque it should have been hilarious, but Tyrion could not even find a smile. ‘The girl deserves better than a pig,’ he thought. ‘An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.’

🎨mrsjadecurtiss

12 65
2019-11-13

Her father used to say that a lord needed to eat with his men, if he hoped to keep them. “Know the men who follow you,” she heard him tell Robb once, “and let them know you. Don’t ask your men to die for a stranger.”

54 227
2019-11-11

“For the night is dark,” the others chanted, Harwin and Anguy loud as all the rest, “and full of terrors.”

“This cave is dark too,” said the Hound, “but I’m the terror here. I hope your god’s a sweet one, Dondarrion. You’re going to meet him shortly.”

37 157
2019-11-10

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”

-Tywin Lannister

21 116
2019-10-27