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rubies flew like drops of blood from the chest of a dying prince, and he sank to his knees in the water and with his last breath murmured a woman's name. // @droppedrubies

i am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. here then, as i lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, i bring the life of that unhappy henry jekyll to an end. // @vicemirrored

if you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. and if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. // @handofhonor

i meant it, when i joined the wardens. i expected it to be for life. if i wasn't prepared for that, i would never have gone through the joining. ( so what happened? ). justice. // @invindictae

you never knew lyanna as i did, robert. you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. // @marblecarved

that is nymeria's star, burning bright, and that milky band behind her, those are ten thousand ships. she burned as bright as any man, and so SHALL I. // @brnedbright

i’ve never really lived. but i’ve come to the right place, though – a city-state full of lost souls who have never really lived. // @patersanctii

the fire is mine. i am daenerys stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons, don't you see? don't you see? // @dragonryse​

why the oldest son, and not the best-fitted? the crown will suit me, as it never suited robert and would not suit stannis. // @thekingrenly

i have won every battle, yet somehow i'm losing the war. // @withanarmy

i shall be a good and true wife to robb, i swear. and as wise a QUEEN as i can. // @honourofwesterling

arya was a trial, it must be said. half a boy, half a wolf pup. forbid her anything and it became her heart's desire. she had ned's long face, and brown hair that always looked as though a bird had been nesting in it. i despaired of ever making a lady of her. she collected scabs as other girls collected dolls, and would say anything that came into her head. // @needlcd

you want to know what i was before all this? i was nobody. nothing. // @vestwings

his blood is bad. he needs to be leeched. the leeches suck away the bad blood, all the rage and pain. no man can think so full of anger. ramsay, though… his tainted blood would poison even leeches, i fear. // @eversoblack

give me my fucking coin, dead wife. // @thecarnival​

the night's watch is a sworn brotherhood. we have no families. none of us will ever father sons. our wife is duty. our mistress is honor. // @benjenstcrk

seaworth had a lordly ring to it, but down deep he was still Davos of flea bottom, coming home to his city on its three high hills. he knew as much of ships and sails and shores as any man in the seven kingdoms, and had fought his share of desperate fights sword to sword on a wet deck. but to this sort of battle he came a maiden, nervous and afraid. smugglers do not sound warhorns and raise banners. when they smell danger, they raise sail and run before the wind. // @davosshorthand​