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George R.R. Martin - A STORM OF SWORDS, Arya XIII

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CATELYN TULLY LADY STONEHEART

‘Her eyes saw him, and they hated.’

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Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Storm of Swords - Jaime IV      “Are you so craven?”      The word shocked him. He was Jaime Lannister, a knight of the Kingsguard, he was the Kingslayer. No man had ever called him craven. Other things they called him, yes; oathbreaker, liar, murderer. They said he was cruel, treacherous, reckless. But never craven. “What else can I do, but die?”      “Live,” she said, “live, and fight, and take revenge.”

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Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.

George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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All day the wind blew, steady from the east at first, and then in wild gusts. The sun set in a blaze of red. I am still half a world from Westeros, Dany reminded herself, but every hour brings me closer. She tried to imagine what it would look like, when she first caught sight of the land she was born to rule. It will be as fair a shore as I have ever seen, I know it. How could it be otherwise? (Daenerys I, A Storm of Swords)

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Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Storm of Swords - Catelyn III      “Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself...swore to myself...that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies...now I can’t even tell one from the other. How did it all get so confused? Lord Rickard’s fought at my side in half a dozen battles. His sons died for me in the Whispering Wood. Tion Frey and Willem Lannister were my enemies. Yet now I have to kill my dead friends’ father for their sakes.” He looked at them all. “Will the Lannisters thank me for Lord Rickard’s head? Will the Freys?”

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Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Storm of Swords - Daenerys II      “When Aegon the Dragon stepped ashore in Westeros, the kings of Vale and Rock and Reach did not rush to hand him their crowns. If you mean to sit the Iron Throne, you must win it as he did, with steel and dragonfire. And that will mean blood on your hands before the thing is done.”      Blood and fire, thought Dany. The words of House Targaryen. She had known them all her life. “The blood of my enemies I will shed gladly. The blood of innocents is another matter. Eight thousand Unsullied they would offer me. Eight thousand dead babes. Eight thousand strangled dogs.”      “Your Grace,” said Jorah Mormont, “I saw King’s Landing after the Sack. Babes were butchered that day as well, and old men, and children at play. More women were raped than you can count. There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him. Yet I have never heard of these Unsullied raping, nor putting a city to the sword, nor even plundering, save at the express command of those who lead them. Brick they may be, as you say, but if you buy them henceforth the only dogs they’ll kill are those you want dead. And you do have some dogs you want dead, as I recall.”

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Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Storm of Swords - Samwell III      “Old gods, hear my prayer. The Seven were my father’s gods but I said my words to you when I joined the Watch. Help us now. I fear we might be lost. We’re hungry too, and so cold. I don’t know what gods I believe in now, but...please, if you’re there, help us. Gilly has a little son.” That was all he could think to say. The dusk was deepening, the leaves of the weirwood rustling softly, waving like a thousand blood-red hands. Whether Jon’s gods had heard him or not he could not say.