Do you know what the realm is? It’s the thousand blades of Aegon’s enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over until we forget that it’s a lie...Chaos isn’t a pit, chaos is a ladder.

“So the girl is as clever as she is pretty.”
“I dreamed of Bran,” Sansa had whispered. “I saw him smiling.”
Brienne, I have taken many wellborn ladies into my service over the years, but never one like you.

I am only a little bird, repeating the songs they taught me.

It would be good to return to Winterfell. He ought never have left. His sons were waiting there. Perhaps he and Catelyn would make a new son together when he returned, they were not so old yet.
