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EMILIA CLARKE for Elle Magazine, August 2017

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You only hate me cause I keep snatching you in my talons and throwing you off mountaintops

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What … what game? The only game. The game of thrones.

Insp. by @aegon

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Art credit: Jon Snow by Nordheimer & The Ghost Wolf by anndr

CHILDREN OF THE MOUNTAIN

Soon they were high enough so that looking down was best not considered. There was nothing below but yawning blackness, nothing above but moon and stars. “The mountain is your mother,” Stonesnake had told him during an easier climb a few days past. “Cling to her, press your face up against her teats, and she won’t drop you.” Jon had made a joke of it, saying how he’d always wondered who his mother was, but never thought to find her in the Frostfangs. It did not seem nearly so amusing now. One step and then another, he thought, clinging tight.

—A Clash of Kings - Jon VI

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“You’re mistaken. I never fall.” Mya’s hair had tumbled across her cheek, hiding one eye.

“Almost, I said. I saw you. Weren’t you afraid?

“Mya shook her head. “I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I’m flying. We’re both laughing, laughing so much that I can hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me.” She pushed her hair back. “Then one day he wasn’t. 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. I trust my father, and I trust my mules. I won’t fall.” She put her hand on a jagged spur of rock, and got to her feet. “Best finish. We have a long way yet to go, and I can smell a storm.”

—A Feast for Crows - Alayne II

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female awesome meme: [1/5] warrior characters

arya stark - “nothing isn’t better or worse than anything. nothing is just nothing.”

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Fancast Meme: Nine Characters who Died Before the Story Begins (3/9):

Annabelle Wallis as Joanna Lannister

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Dorne Week: Day Two: Favorite Dornish Women: All of the women of House Martell

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“Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. And Arya, well… Ned’s visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Half a boy and half a wolf pup. Forbid her anything and it became her heart’s desire.”

anon asked: sansa or arya?

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Where are you from anyway? The North or the South? I come from a very small village— Oh wait. I just realized. I don’t care.

SANSA STARK ♕ 1.06 A GOLDEN CROWN

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“She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.”

― A Dance With Dragons

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A Clash of Kings - POV characters

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I’m a slow learner. It’s true. But I learn.

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DAENERYS TARGARYEN in HBO’s Game of Thrones 3x05 ’Kissed by Fire’

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She is good at this, he thought, as he watched her tell Lord Gyles that his cough was sounding better, compliment Elinor Tyrell on her gown, and question Jalabhar Xho about wedding customs in the Summer Isles. His cousin Ser Lancel had been brought down by Ser Kevan, the first time he’d left his sickbed since the battle. He looks ghastly. Lancel’s hair had turned white and brittle, and he was thin as a stick. Without his father beside him holding him up, he would surely have collapsed. Yet when Sansa praised his valor and said how good it was to see him getting strong again, both Lancel and Ser Kevan beamed. She would have made Joffrey a good queen and a better wife if he’d had the sense to love her. (A Storm of Swords - Tyrion VIII)

We often talk about how Sansa learns politics from Cersei and Baelish and from her time at the Vale, but I rarely see Ned being listed among her teachers. Meanwhile, this passage is Ned’s lessons in action. “Know the men who follow you and let them know you,” he told Robb. Arya heard that, and it seems that Sansa did, too, because that’s exactly what she’s doing here, albeit in her own gentle way. She hates being there and is disappointed in people surrounding her, but she still shows interest in their lives and makes them like her in return.

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ASOIAF CHALLENGE ♛ {1/3} major characters ↦ sansa stark

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"The night’s first traitors,” the queen said, “but not the last, I fear. Have Ser Ilyn see to them, and put their heads on pikes outside the stables as a warning.” As they left, she turned to Sansa. “Another lesson you should learn, if you hope to sit beside my son. Be gentle on a night like this and you’ll have treasons popping up all about you like mushrooms after a hard rain. The only way to keep your people loyal is to make certain they fear you more than they do the enemy.” - A Clash Of Kings, Sansa VI

Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sansa Stark.