More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Started reading
November 26, 2023
and his bowels had turned to water.
ew
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.
Promise me, she had cried, in a room that smelled of blood and roses. Promise me, Ned.
“My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.”
foreshadowing???
“Joffrey is truly a little shit,”
amen
My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind … and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
Whoever his mother had been, she had left little of herself in her son.
irony?
“None of us is ever ready,” he said. “For knighthood?” “For death.”
never untied a knot when he could slash it in two with his sword.
“Wear it in silence, or I’ll honor you again,” Robert vowed.
sheeesh
Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died.
GRRM has a way with imagery
it was whispered, notoriously uninterested in the intimate charms of women.
gaaaaaay
He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon.
DAYUM
“Hodor,” said Hodor.
iconic
The king eats, Robert had said, and the Hand takes the shit. How he had laughed. Yet he had gotten it wrong. The king dies, Ned Stark thought, and the Hand is buried.
why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?
bungholes
hehehehe
He is his father’s son as much as mine, I must remember. Oh, gods, Ned …
*sobbing*
she and Lysa had played at kissing with Petyr.
whaaaaaaat
two-handed greatsword.
steak in the boot!
“The King in the North!” “The King in the North!” “THE KING IN THE NORTH!”
such emotion
“The Rainbow Guard?” “Renly’s made his own Kingsguard,” the onetime smuggler explained, “but these seven don’t wear white. Each one has his own color. Loras Tyrell’s their Lord Commander.”
are these colors symbolic of homosexuality in this world too?
She was red, and terrible, and red.
eloquent
The Seven have no power beyond the Wall, he thought, but my gods will be waiting.
I love the old gods, forget the Seven
first pale fingers of light
newest favorite,
newest loverrrrrr
The Sorrowful Men were an ancient sacred guild of assassins, so named because they always whispered, “I am so sorry,” to their victims before they killed them.
LMAO
If I were Mace Tyrell, I would sooner have Joffrey’s head on a pike than his cock in my daughter.
sheeesh
“If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.”
wot in tarnation
My love for you shames me enough.
ouch
I’m all that stands between them and chaos.”
“A man hears the whisper of sand in a glass. A man will not sleep until a girl unsays a certain name. Now, evil child.” I’m not an evil child, she thought, I am a direwolf, and the ghost in Harrenhal.
arya is such a BRAT
“There must be one more,” he said, though whether he was speaking to her or the woman in the bed she could not say.
“The dragon has three heads.”
mother of dragons … child of three
three treasons will you know … once for blood and once for gold and once for love
The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.
THAT IMAGERY
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
“A dream,” said Jon feebly. “I was Ghost, I was on the edge of the mountain looking down on a frozen river, and something attacked me. A bird … an eagle, I think …”
warging?!
Davos closed his stubby hand around the pouch that held his fingerbones, and mouthed a silent prayer for luck.
forgot about this. gross.
“Jon has a different part to play.”
did he know that jon had to join mance already this soon
the white who has no voice.
“I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open,
prophecy?
When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
a thousand bright new pennies
pennies are american interestingv that its mentioned here
“Only a penny for each,
oh well then i guess westeros has pennies
“We’ll have music, such sweet music, and wine, heh, the red will run, and we’ll put some wrongs aright.
the RED WILL RUN?! UGHH
Robb and he used to climb the towers of Winterfell to shout at each other across the yard.
Why is this so cute
“Oh.” Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” she sighed, dying.
Such a different vibe than the show
I even saw an eagle circling. I think he saw me too. I waved at him.”
oh nooo thats the warg?
