porcelain

They’re beautiful, aren’t they? It wasn’t the word I was thinking of but…but, yes, they are.

He had wrapped the cloak of his protection about her shoulders.

King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

… my son

Finally he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him. And he looked past the Wall, past endless forests cloaked in snow, past the frozen shore and the great blue-white rivers of ice and the dead plains where nothing grew or lived. North and north and north he looked, to the curtain of light at the end of the world, and then beyond that curtain. He looked deep into THE HEART OF WINTER, and then he cried out, afraid, and the heat of his tears burned on his cheeks.                  Now you know, the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. Now you know why you must live.

Nothing. No matches on prints, DNA, dental. Clothing is custom, no labels. Nothing in his pockets but knives and lint. No name, no other alias.

I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.

for @mavencalore​

Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore. 

i told you babygirl that one day we would rule the world. when i spoke those words i didn’t know, oh how could i have possibly known? that when we ruled it would not be side by side, as we had once imagined on those summer days, but worlds apart and frozen by winters chill. 

anonymous requested: game of thrones + favourite season

She deserved more than darkness.

“I have no sister.” The words were knives. What do you know of my heart, priestess? What do you know of my sister? Melisandre seemed amused. “What is her name, this little sister that you do not have?” “Arya.” His voice was hoarse. “My half-sister, truly …”

got/asoiaf meme: 3 major characters: daenerys targaryen

“No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.”

THE N O R T H

You need her as she needs you… and I need both of you, gods help me.