“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”

-Loras Tyrell

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“The dragon prince sang a song so sad it made the wolf maid sniffle.”

-Meera Reed

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Another small victory. Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

-Daenerys Targaryen

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The king moved, so his shadow fell upon King’s Landing. “If Joffrey should die … what is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?”

“Everything,” said Davos, softly.

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Unbidden, his thoughts went to Brienne of Tarth.

-Jaime Lannister

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Doing some small watercolor sketches of the kids represented by their respective direwolves (more book canon). Anticipating Here’s and

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Ghost was curled up asleep beside the door, but he lifted his head at the sound of Jon’s boots. The direwolf’s red eyes were darker than garnets and wiser than men. Jon knelt, scratched his ear, and showed him the pommel of the sword. “Look. It’s you.”

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“I took her castle and she took my heart.” Robb smiled.


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“Why can’t it be both?” Meera reached up to pinch his nose.

“Because they’re different,” he insisted. “Like night and day, or ice and fire.”

“If ice can burn,” said Jojen in his solemn voice, “then love and hate can mate.”

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’Old or young, a true knight is sworn to protect those who are weaker than himself, or die in the attempt.’

-Brienne of Tarth

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“I dreamt a wolf howling in the rain, but no one heard his grief,” the dwarf woman was saying. “I dreamt such a clangor I thought my head might burst, drums and horns and pipes and screams, but the saddest sound was the little bells.”

-the Ghost of High Heart

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“It must be windy there,” the captain’s daughter observed.

He laughed. “Windy and cold and damp. A miserable hard place, in truth … but my lord father once told me that hard places breed hard men, and hard men rule the world.”

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Some of the dead men had been bald and some bearded, some young and some old, some short, some tall, some fat, some thin. Swollen in death, with faces gnawed and rotten, they all looked the same. ‘On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.’

-Brienne of Tarth

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My son is leading a host to war, she thought, still only half believing it. She was desperately afraid for him & for Winterfell, yet she could not deny feeling a certain pride as well. A year ago he had been a boy. What was he now? she wondered.

-Catelyn Stark

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“Tregar, see that no harm comes to Lord Stark.”
“As you say, m’lord.”
“Still … we wouldn’t want him to leave here entirely unchastened, so”—through the night and the rain, Ned glimpsed the white of Jaime’s smile—“kill his men.”

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‘Now you know,’ the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. ‘Now you know why you must live.’

“Why?” Bran said, not understanding, falling, falling.

‘Because winter is coming.’


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Aemon’s fingers trembled, twigs sheathed in spotted skin. “I remember, Sam. I still remember.”

He was not making sense. “Remember what?”

“Dragons,” Aemon whispered. “The grief and glory of my House, they were.”

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