Catelyn Stark Quotes

“Laughter is poison to fear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?'

'Because of men like you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The singers make much of kings who valiantly die in battle, but your life is worth more than a sword. To me at least, who gave it to you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Because it will not last,” Catelyn answered, sadly. “Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to
Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson.

Cat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You are a woman, my lady," the Greatjon rumbled in his deep voice. "Women do not understand these things."
"You are the gentle sex," said Lord Karstark, with the lines of grief fresh on his face. "A man has a need for vengeance."
"Give me Cersei Lannister, Lord Karstark , and you would see how gentle a woman can be," Catelyn replied.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm....”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“You each name yourself king, yet the kingdom bleeds and no one lefts a sword to defend it but my son.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“I seldom fling children off the tops of towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.”
― George R.R Martin

“If you had to fall into a woman's arms, my son, why couldn't they have been Margaery Tyrell's?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Living men had gone south, and cold bones would return. Ned had the truth of it, she thought. His place was at Winterfell, he said as much, but would I hear him? No. Go, I told him, you must be Robert's Hand, for the good of our House, for the sake of our children ... my doing, min, no other ...”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her men had always made her wait. “Watch for me, little Cat,” her father would always tell her, when he rode off to court or fair or battle. And she would, standing patiently on the battlements of Riverrun as the waters of the Red Fork and the Tumblestone flowed by. He did not always come when he said he would, and days would ofttimes pass as Catelyn stood her vigil, peering out between crenels and through arrow loops until she caught a glimpse of Lord Hoster on his old brown gelding, trotting along the rivershore toward the landing. “Did you watch for me?” he’d ask when he bent to bug her. “Did you, little Cat?”

Brandon Stark had bid her wait as well. “I shall not be long, my lady,” he had vowed. “We will be wed on my return.” Yet when the day came at last, it was his brother Eddard who stood beside her in the sept.

Ned had lingered scarcely a fortnight with his new bride before he too had ridden off to war with promises on his lips. At least he had left her with more than words; he had given her a son.”
― George RR Martin

“I've never lain with any woman but Cersei. In my own way, I have been truer than your Ned ever was. Poor old dead Ned. So who has shit for honor now, I ask you? What was the name of that bastard he fathered?"
Catelyn took a step backward. "Brienne."
"No that wasn't it.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings