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[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, eddard xv, page 636

“varys gave a long weary sigh, the sigh of a man who carried all the sadness of the world in a sack upon his shoulders. ‘the high septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer. if that’s true, lord eddard, tell me…why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lord play your game of thrones? ponder it, if you would, while you wait upon the queen.’”

[divinespairings]

asoiaf quotes:  A Game of Thrones, Chapter 66, Bran VII

“The maid’s a fair one,” Osha said. 

“Robert was betrothed to marry her, but Prince Rhaegar carried her off and raped her,” Bran explained. “Robert fought a war to win her back. He killed Rhaegar on the Trident with his hammer, but Lyanna died and he never got her back at all. 

“A sad tale,” said Osha, “but those empty holes are sadder.”

“Lord Eddard’s tomb, for when his time comes,” Maester Luwin said. “Is this where you saw your father in your dream, Bran?” 

“Yes.” The memory made him shiver. He looked around the vault uneasily, the hairs on the back of his neck bristling. Had he heard a noise? Was there someone here? 

Maester Luwin stepped toward the open sepulchre, torch in hand. “As you see, he’s not here. Nor will he be, for many a year. Dreams are only dreams, child.”

[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, jon viii, page 662

“‘tell me, jon, if the day should ever come when your lord father must needs choose between honour on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?’ [...]

‘he would do whatever was right,’ he said ... ringingly, to make up for his hesitation. ‘no matter what.’

‘then lord eddard is a man in ten thousand. most of us are not so strong. what is honour compared to a woman’s love? what is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother’s smile? wind and words. wind and words. we are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. that is our great glory, and our great tragedy.’”

[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, sansa v, page 625

“gods give me courage. [sansa] took one step, then another. lords and knights stepped aside silently to let her pass, and she felt the weight of their eyes on her. i must be as strong as my lady mother. ‘your grace,’ she called out in a soft, tremulous voice.”

[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, eddard xv, page 628

“the dark was absolute. [ned] had as well be blind.

or dead. buried with his king. ‘ah, robert,’ he murmured as his groping hand touched a cold stone wall, his leg throbbing with every motion. he remembered the jest the king had shared in the crypts of winterfell, as the kings of winter looked on with cold stone eyes. the king eats, robert had said, and the hand takes the shit. how he had laughed. yet he had gotten it wrong. the king dies, ned stark thought, and the hand is buried.”

[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, tyrion viii, page 684

“the rising sun was burning off the drifting tendrils of fog as tyrion led [the mountain men] off. [...]

in the dawn light, the army of lord tywin lannister unfolded like an iron rose, thorns gleaming.”

[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, catelyn viii, page 598

“robb looked up at the sudden quiet and saw her. ‘mother?’ he said, his voice thick with emotion.

catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms and hold him so tightly that he would never come to harm…but here in front of his lords, she dared not. he was playing a man’s part now, and she would not take that away from him. so she held herself at the far end of the basalt slab they were using for a table. the direwolf got to his feet and padded across the room to where she stood. it seemed bigger than a wolf ought to be. ‘you’ve grown a beard’, she said to robb, while grey wind sniffed her hand.”

[alicenyras]

addi’s favourite asoiaf quotes: a game of thrones, eddard xii, page 488


‘“i promise you, no matter where you flee, robert’s wrath will follow you, to the back of beyond if need be.”


the queen stood. “and what of my wrath, lord stark?” she asked softly. her eyes searched his face. “you should have taken the realm for yourself. it was there for the taking. jaime told me how you found him on the iron throne the day king’s landing fell, and made him yield it up. that was your moment. all you needed to do was climb those steps, and sit. such a sad mistake.”


“i have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine,” ned said, “but that was not one of them.”


“oh, but it was, my lord,” cersei insisted. “when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. there is no middle ground.”


she turned up her hood to hide her swollen face and left him there in the dark beneath the oak, amidst the quiet of the godswood, under a blue-black sky. the stars were coming out.’