“May I congratulate you on your victory over the savages? The singers will make much of it, I know—”

“The singers may do as they like,” Stannis snapped. “Spare me your fawning, Janos, it will not serve you.” He rose to his feet and frowned at them all.

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“Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. ‘The wolf blood,’ my father used to call it. Lyanna had a touch of it, and my brother Brandon more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave.” Arya heard sadness in his voice.

-Eddard Stark

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“I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal … and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.”

-Daario Naharis

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She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. ‘From Winterfell,’ she thought. ‘I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell.’

-Sansa Stark

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“The seed is strong.”

-Jon Arryn

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“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”

-Cersei Lannister

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“Will you make a song for him?” the woman asked.
“He has a song,” the man replied. “He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.”

-Elia Martell & Rhaegar Targaryen

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‘He is no true knight but he saved me all the same,’ she told the Mother. ‘Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him.’

-Sansa Stark

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“You Starks are hard to kill.”

“You Lannisters had best remember that.”

-Tyrion Lannister & Robb Stark

59 210

“Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died.”

-Jorah Mormont

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“No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”

“There is the window. Leap.” Victarion had no patience for this. His wounded hand was troubling him. “What do you want?”

“The world.” Firelight glimmered in Euron’s eye. His smiling eye.

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Rhaenyra Targaryen, Aegon III Targaryen

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Ser Gerold drew his sword. It glimmered in the starlight, sharp as lies. “This is how you start a war. Not with a crown of gold, but with a blade of steel.”

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“I have it in me to be a great king, strong yet generous, clever, just, diligent, loyal to my friends and terrible to my enemies, yet capable of forgiveness, patient—”

“—humble?” Catelyn supplied.

Renly laughed. “You must allow a king some flaws, my lady.”

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“If a thousand ships set sail, three hundred may reach the far side of the narrow sea … and then what? The first storm will scatter us across half the earth.”
A smile played across Euron’s blue lips. “I am the storm, my lord. The first storm, and the last.”

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The waters of the Trident ran red around the hooves of their destriers as they circled and clashed, again and again, until at last a crushing blow from Robert’s hammer stove in the dragon and the chest beneath it.

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“Your men did what they were sworn to do, Robb. They died protecting their liege lord. Grieve for them. Honor them for their valor.”

-Catelyn Stark

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


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