#gotvarys

“Look, little loves. A spider in the garden.” - Olenna Tyrell

“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.’”

#dammit he’s fucking right

Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Clash of Kings - Tyrion II      “The king, the priest, the rich man - who lives and who dies? Who will the sellsword obey? It’s a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.”      “And yet he is no one,” Varys said. “He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.”      “That piece of steel is the power of life and death.”      “Just so...yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?”

Game of Thrones (2011-2019) “The Last of the Starks” 

Beware the perfumed seneschal.