The River Wind Moved Through The High Branches, And She Could See The Wheel Tower To Her Right, Ivy Crawling

The river wind moved through the high branches, and she could see the Wheel Tower to her right, ivy crawling up its side. As she stood there, all the memories came flooding back to her. Her father had taught her to ride amongst these trees, and that was the elm that Edmure had fallen from when he broke his arm, and over there, beneath that bower, she and Lysa had played at kissing with Petyr.

pre-asoiaf meme: six pre-asoiaf dynamics ♦ catelyn & lysa tully // eleanor tomlinson as catelyn tully, isolda dychauk as lysa tully

Arya never seemed to fit, no more than he had… yet she could always make Jon smile.

What’s pissing me off this season is that no one is aware of armies movements. First Highgarden and then the Dothrakis. I mean, how comes that no one notices thousands of people and horses moving before it’s too late?

Lady Olenna could’ve easily retreated to Dragonstone while the Lannisters'a army approached, but no one in the Reach realised what was happening.

Now they did the same with the Dothrakis, a howling hoard landed on the coast that still no one managed to notice before they crushed against the Lannisters'a army.

Having fantastic elements like dragons doesn’t necessarily imply abandoning realism once and for all.

Your sister has done things I was incapable of imagining. That was my prize mistake, a failure of imagination. She’s a monster, you do know that? She’s a disease. I regret my role in spreading it. You will, too.  ★  t h e  q u e e n ’ s  j u s t i c e

She had pictured him as a younger version of his brother Brandon, but that was wrong. Ned was shorter and plainer of face, and so somber. He spoke courteously enough, but beneath the words she sensed a coolness that was all at odds with Brandon, whose mirths had been as wild as his rages. Even when he took her maidenhood, their love had more of duty to it than of passion. We made Robb that night, though; we made a king together. And after the war, at Winterfell, I had love enough for any woman, once I found the good sweet heart beneath Ned’s solemn face.

pre-asoiaf meme: four pre-series versions of asoiaf characters ♦ eddard stark // peter mooney as young eddard stark

It got to the point where if there was a manipulative femme fatale who was going to be seducing the leading man, it was ‘Call Natalie Dormer.’ Every actor, wherever they are on the hierarchy, get put in a box to a certain extent. And it’s wonderful when people like Matthew McConaughey can turn around and go: ‘You thought I was this, but look what I can do!’ You have to start challenging people’s perceptions of you, and the perceptions you have of yourself, really.