sansa + girl in grey

sansa fleeing from her marriage to harry the heir, in her wedding grey and white cloak. sansa has a pattern of slipping away from the marriages planned for her.

"I have seen your sister in my fires, fleeing from this marriage they have made for her. Coming here, to you. A girl in grey on a dying horse, I have seen it plain as day. It has not happened yet, but it will."

[ADWD - Jon VI]

"—and when they come together for his wedding, andyou come out with your long auburn hair, clad in a maiden's cloak of white and grey with a direwolf emblazoned on the back."

[AFFC - Alayne ||]

sansa additionally is likely not going to be LF perfect obedient pawn.

“In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you’ve planned for them.”

[AFFC, Alayne I]

sansa + whitehart

sansa dreams of a white hart, of joffrey slaying the magical beast. joffrey, is far from the prince from her stories.

if sansa were to run into the magic beast on her journey north, it would ssymbolize sansa becoming a hero of her own story.

"In the songs, the knights never killed magical beasts, they just went up to them and touched them and did them no harm"

sansa + patchface's prophecy

patchface’s prophecy is in reference to sansa at the purple wedding. sansa is wife and is wearing a silver gown with a hairnet of dark purple gemstones. a merwife who wears dark purple nennymoans and is dressed in a gown of silver seaweed.

Patchface rang his bells. "It is always summer under the sea," he intoned. "The merwives wear nennymoans in their hair and weave gowns of silver seaweed. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh."

[ACOK - prologue]

Sansa wore a gown of silvery satin trimmed in vair, with dagged sleeves that almost touched the floor, lined in soft purple felt. Shae had arranged her hair artfully in a delicate silver net winking with dark purple gemstones.

[ASOS - Tyrion VIII]

sansa + the little mermaid 

sansa shares similarities with both hans christian andersen’s and disney’s little mermaid.  [hans] the little mermaid falls for a prince but is unable to get the prince to fall for her, instead he marries another. both are young princesses far from their home, forced to endure suffering silently (more metaphorical for sansa) despite that they are resilient and graceful.

sansa just like the little mermaid feels like she is walking on sharp knives. additionally, it's also important to note that grrm is found of the 1989 adaptation of the story.

"Take it away," Sansa commanded, but the girl left the food on a table. She was thirsty, she realized. Every step sent knives through her thighs, but she made herself cross the room. She drank two cups of water, and was nibbling on an olive when the knock came.

[ACAK - Sansa III]

“[…] But every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow.”