Barbrey Dustin

My mother raised me to be bold. You can see my new updates on Instagram @barbreydustin

[bcrbrey]

Lady Ashara Dayne. It's an old tale, that one. I heard it once at Winterfell, when I was no older than you are now. I doubt there's any truth to it. But if there is, what of it? When Ned met this Dornish lady, his brother Brandon was still alive, and it was him betrothed to Lady Catelyn, so there's no stain on your father's honor. There's nought like a tourney to make the blood run hot, so maybe some words were whispered in a tent of a night, who can say? Words or kisses, maybe more, but where's the harm in that?

[bcrbrey]

She was more beautiful than that. Ah, damn it, Ned, did you have to bury her in a place like this? She deserved more than darkness ...

[bcrbrey]

Cersei could have given the prince the sons he wanted, lions with purple eyes and silver manes … and with such a wife, Rhaegar might never have looked twice at Lyanna Stark. The northern girl had a wild beauty, as he recalled, though however bright a torch might burn it could never match the rising sun.

[bcrbrey]

In Dorne, she walked among vipers and none would bite her.

[bcrbrey]

The king stood outside his tent, staring into the nightfire. What does he see there? Victory? Doom? The face of his red and hungry god? His eyes were sunk in deep pits, his close-cropped beard no more than a shadow across his hollow cheeks and bony jawbone. Yet there was power in his stare, an iron ferocity that told Asha this man would never, ever turn back from his course.

[bcrbrey]

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.

[bcrbrey]

Let him be scared of me.

[bcrbrey]

Rhaegar loved his lady Lyanna and thousands died for it.

[bcrbrey]

It is past time that Arya learned the ways of a southron court. I'm a few years she will be of an age to marry too.

— Catelyn, AGOT

[bcrbrey]

[bcrbrey]

So the girl is as clever as she is pretty. Tommen could do a deal worse for a queen.

— Jaime, AFFC

[bcrbrey]

She is stronger than I am. The realization chilled him.

- Jaime, ASOS

[bcrbrey]

“You believe this is the only place for you.” It was as if he’d heard her thoughts. “You are wrong in that. You would find softer service in the household of some merchant. Or would you sooner be a courtesan, and have songs sung of your beauty? Speak the word, and we will send you to the Black Pearl or the Daughter of the Dusk. You will sleep on rose petals and wear silken skirts that rustle when you walk, and great lords will beggar themselves for your maiden’s blood.

– Arya, AFFC

[bcrbrey]

Had any man ever been so beautiful? He was more than a man, though. His blood was the blood of old Valyria, the blood of dragons and gods.

[bcrbrey]

Quentyn: The marriage pact—Barristan: —was made by two dead men and contained not a word about the queen or you. It promised your sister's hand to the queen's brother, another dead man.

Irina shayk as Arianne Martell

[bcrbrey]

"She had a small black kitten she called Balerion, did you know? I always wondered what happened to him. Rhaenys liked to pretend he was the true Balerion, the Black Dread of old, but I imagine the Lannisters taught her the difference between a kitten and a dragon quick enough, the day they broke down her door."