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“ sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined “

“ Being human is to grieve, constantly “

“We’re all out of stars. Everything we painted today is already hanging in the night sky.”

rolling my eyes right outta my head
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

“They say fire cleanses all. In this, I begrudge being spared by the first men to cleanse my family’s history”

“ i still breathe the air of the last of us. I am insistence personified, and the spite I draw is my sustenance. “

“a child can long for a parent in a way that a parent can never long for a child “

“ To ignore race was to attempt to be white “

“In the songs, the knights never screamed nor begged for mercy”

“ Old pain trained the body to miss it. Over time, flesh forgot the difference between what it had learned to tolerate and what gave it relief. “

“ he preferred being furious about losing his sight to mourning the loss of his dreams. Tears choked you. Rage kept you breathing. Anger needed air to fan its flames “

“ The inside of a rice wine kettle and grief had one thing in common: They were both pitch-black “

“ The doors are scattered around the train. They sing to each other to keep themselves from feeling lonely “

“ You boarded it at the end of all your dreams at a quarter past your heaviest sigh. The train caught you when you floated away “

“ Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died “

“ Love is sweet, but it cannot change a man’s nature “

“ Don’t think me small. If I’m ever fragile, it is only because I prefer to be “

“ I’m a baby bird, chirping for anyone at all to spit food into my mouth”

“ Because I know now that my heart is a soft thing. What’s the point in pretending it isn’t? “

“ I roll my eyes at the idea of a demonic entity with a love of nut butter”

“ they say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor “

the way the whole first chapter of this book had my jaw on the floor..

“I was trapped in a place of being too old to cry for my mama yet needing her more than I ever had before “

“ Sometimes men are so dumb I envy them. “

“ The world will drive a woman insane, then point at them and laugh. “

“ you are beautiful, handsome, strange, ethereal , professorial, dark, an ocean. Rugged, dangerous.”

“a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is”

“He had taken off fathers face, bran thought, and donned the face of Lord Stark of Winterfell “

my heart is breaking

moms are so special 🥹