“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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“A savior from across the sea to bind up the wounds of bleeding Westeros.”
“Fine words.” Tyrion was unimpressed. “Words are wind. Who is this bloody savior?”
“A dragon.” The cheesemonger saw the look on his face at that, & laughed. “A dragon with three heads.”

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“And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”

“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”

-Haldon & fAegon

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“You won’t hear me shout out Joffrey’s name,” he told them. “You won’t hear me yell for Casterly Rock either. This is your city Stannis means to sack, and that’s your gate he’s bringing down. So come with me and kill the son of a bitch!”

-Tyrion Lannister

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Finally Bran looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him.


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“A hall is no place for a wolf. He gets restless, you’ve seen. Growling and snapping. I should never have taken him into battle with me. He’s killed too many men to fear them now.”

-Robb Stark

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Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.

-Barristan Selmy

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“It is the war for the dawn you speak of, my lady. But where is the prince that was promised?”

-Aemon Targaryen

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Through their thick, diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass Jaime glimpsed the gnarled limbs of the tree from which the castle took its name. It was a weirwood ancient & colossal, ten times the size of the one in the Stone Garden at Casterly Rock.


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“The broken man lives from day to day, from meal to meal, more beast than man. Lady Brienne is not wrong. In times like these, the traveler must beware of broken men, and fear them … but he should pity them as well.”

-Septon Meribald

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