She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again.
The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone.

-Arya Stark

40 165

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

-Theon Greyjoy

33 131

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 55

“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

27 138

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

25 133

‘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.’

28 158

“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

27 150

“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

13 69

“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

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

32 135

“You should have learned by now, none of us get the things we want.”

-Cersei Lannister

40 155

“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

34 211

“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

49 171

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

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

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

-Jaime Lannister

46 167

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

26 135

“I am not without mercy,” thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.

-Stannis Baratheon

33 177

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

-Roose Bolton
🎨Jortagul

24 121