xblair:
“I would expect no less of you. Jousting is in your blood. One day you shall rule the lists, as your father did.”
“No man will stand before him.” Margaery Tyrell gave the queen a coy smile. “But I never knew that King Robert was so accomplished at the joust. Pray tell us, Your Grace, what tourneys did he win? What great knights did he unseat? I know the king should like to hear about his father’s victories.”
A flush crept up Cersei’s neck. The girl had caught her out. … It had been Jaime she had been thinking of when she spoke. It is not like me to forget myself.
(via baelish)
This is what ruling is, lying on a bed of weeds ripping them out before they strangle you in your sleep.
(Source: mellonball, via baelish)
“You have inherited your father’s responsibilities. They come at a cost.”
“I love her.”
(Source: fearisforthewinter, via baelish)
“He’s here for us, he says,” the queen said. “Stannis may take the city and he may take the throne, but I will not suffer him to judge me. I do not mean for him to have us alive.”
”Us?”
“You heard me. So perhaps you had best pray again, Sansa, and for a different outcome. The Starks will have no joy from the fall of House Lannister, I promise you.” She reached out and touched Sansa’s hair, brushing it lightly away from her neck.
(Source: xblair)