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December 12, 2024 - July 31, 2025
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding her true face from my gaze.
“Believe, persist, and follow, and we shall find the peace we seek.”
nigh
Nearly
mead
Alcoholic drink made from honey.
You may have seen a big black stallion in our stables. That was his warhorse, Stranger. A blasphemous name. We prefer to call him Driftwood, as he was found beside the river. I fear he has his former master’s nature.”
Galladon drowned when I was four and he was eight, though, and Alysanne and Arianne died still in the cradle.
the betrayals and betrothals, Red Ronnet and his rose, Lord Renly dancing with her, the wager for her maidenhead, the bitter tears she shed the night her king wed Margaery Tyrell, the mêlée at Bitterbridge, the rainbow cloak that she had been so proud of, the shadow in the king’s pavilion, Renly dying in her arms, Riverrun and Lady Catelyn, the voyage down the Trident, dueling Jaime in the woods, the Bloody Mummers, Jaime crying “Sapphires,” Jaime in the tub at Harrenhal with steam rising from his body, the taste of Vargo Hoat’s blood when she bit down on his ear, the bear pit, Jaime leaping
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Summary of Brienne's life.
wont
Usual habit of doing something
roust
To force move from one place.
fraught
Full with(something bd)
rheumy
गीड
squirrel
गिलहरी
“Once Edmure’s son is born, Lord Walder will have no more need of Edmure.”
She had been a pretty girl, in truth; dimpled and delicate, with long auburn hair. Timid, though. Prone to tongue-tied silences and fits of giggles, with none of Cersei’s fire.
The silver eagle of Mallister was nowhere in evidence; nor the red horse of Bracken, the willow of the Rygers, the twining snakes of Paege.
calumny
ribald
city of fogs and masks and whispers.
“Dalla brought him forth during battle, as the swords sang all around her. That should be his name. Aemon Battleborn. Aemon Steelsong.”
“Jaime will enter all his deeds in the White Book, and the singers will sing of him for a thousand years.”
“Dying is not dead!”
Noble and Puissant Order of the Warrior’s Sons,
Maidenvault,
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On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.
“The Old Inn,
first Jaehaerys, the king who built the kingsroad.
“It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones,”
Septon Meribald was going on to Nutten, Riverbend, and Lord Harroway’s Town,
the kingsroad, the river road, and the high road all came together.
Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.
the Blackfish was looking at him the way that Eddard Stark had looked at him when he’d found him on the Iron Throne with the Mad King’s blood upon his blade.
the repentant lords
A sot, a fool, and a craven. Lord Walder had best outlive this one, or the Freys are done.
besotted
In a world so full of treachery, that was worth a few kisses. She is no worse than most men. At least there is no danger of her ever getting me with child.
sly
nattered
Valor is a poor substitute for numbers.
We princes make our careful plans and the gods smash them all awry.”
there was no shame in being afraid, only in showing your fear. “All men live with fear,”
young girls were always happiest with older men. “Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage,”
Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain’s daughter.
the largest and lowest of the three waycastles that
The taste of onions lingered on her tongue, sharp as the knowledge of her failure.
we must run back to our holes when the dogs come sniffing after us, and there are more dogs every day.”
bovine.
the riddle, not the riddler,”
