More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
December 11, 2024 - January 15, 2025
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.
“Because they’re different,” he insisted. “Like night and day, or ice and fire.”
“Remember Old Nan’s stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.”
They will leave her a cripple too, but inside, where it does not show.
but she was strong, and gentler than he would have thought. Gentler than Cersei,
Ned had big blue eyes, so dark that they looked almost purple. And his hair was a pale blond, more ash than honey.
Arya was lost. “Who’s Wylla?” “Jon Snow’s mother. He never told you? She’s served us for years and years. Since before I was born.”
“Your lord father never spoke of her?” he said. “The Lady Ashara Dayne, of Starfall?”
He looked at her uncomfortably. “My aunt Allyria says Lady Ashara and your father fell in love at Harrenhal—”
In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight.
“Her name is Brienne,” Jaime said. “Brienne, the maid of Tarth.
Is this my punishment for opposing him about Jon Snow? Or for being a woman, and worse, a mother?
No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair.
My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
was born. I lived. I am guilty of being a dwarf, I confess it.