[ADWD Spoilers] Favourite lines & scenes

[~Shiera Seastar~]

A Dance with Dragons has many memorable and great moments. I think that every major character gets one or two of his or her own. What's your favourite scene or line of dialogue?

My favorite scenes in this book are Cersei's Walk of Shame, Quentyn the Dragontamer, and Drogon/Dany in the Daznak's Pit. However, Theon/Reek's chapters are the best, imho. Favorite lines? Some that I'd like to mention will be:

"Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK."

"So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey."

“I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back."

"You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat."

[lostinwesteros]

The execution of Janos Slynt.

Yes, that's still a joy to write...

Truly, this. :agree:

[brut]

Not aSoIaF, strictly speaking, but gotta be this:

Dunk looked at Egg and silently mouthed the words clout in the ear. The boy grinned .

Pretty much all "clout" scenes are lovely in how he never actually harms Egg.

[lostinwesteros]

And, at the risk of running a good thing in the ground, since I've said it so many times before -- Jaime jumping into the bear pit shouting, "Brienne, her name is Brienne!"

[otomo]

pretty much every line stannis says is awesome, but here are some I can rememer

" can a man be brave if he's afraid?"

" thats the only time a man can be brave"

" ELIAAAAAAAAAAA"

"The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints – 'the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...'"

"I'm honest. It's the world that's awful."

[Bloodraven's Eye]

From a Jon chapter when he first hears of Arya's impending nuptials to Ramsay Snow:

"His fingers closed around the parchment. Would that they could crush Ramsay Bolton's throat as easily."

From Manderly's conversation with Davos:

"You saw them, the arrogant Ser Jared and his nephew Rhaegar, that smirking worm who wears a dragon's name."

This is one of my favorites. It shows his disdain for the Freys and reverence for the memory of Rhaegar and the Targaryens. Wyman is a total badass. Another good one in that chapter is his mention of Ramsay:

"Was ever snow so black?"

[wolfmaid7]

"Edd unsheathe long claw"!

Ghost howling for the other members of his pack... I can't help it,it makes me tear up.

"When the lone wolf dies the pack survives".

[Gendels Children]

I was reading this and had to share my feeling.. I LOVE THIS WHOLE SCENE SO MUCH.. ALL OF IT.. mouth watering with awesomeness, I forgot how good it was

I would need to steal her if I wanted her love, but she might give me children. I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb. Val would want to keep her sister's son, but we could foster him at Winterfell, and Gilly's boy as well. Sam would never need to tell his lie. We'd find a place for Gilly too, and Sam could come visit her once a year or so. Mance's son and Craster's would grow up brothers, as I once did with Robb.

He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me. It was a hunger inside him, sharp as a dragonglass blade. A hunger . . . he could feel it. It was food he needed, prey, a red deer that stank of fear or a great elk proud and defiant. He needed to kill and fill his belly with fresh meat and hot dark blood. His mouth began to water with the thought.

It was a long moment before he understood what was happening. When he did, he bolted to his feet. "Ghost?" He turned toward the wood, and there he came, padding silently out of the green dusk, the breath coming warm and white from his open jaws. "Ghost!" he shouted, and the direwolf broke into a run. He was leaner than he had been, but bigger as well, and the only sound he made was the soft crunch of dead leaves beneath his paws. When he reached Jon he leapt, and they wrestled amidst brown grass and long shadows as the stars came out above them. "Gods, wolf, where have you been?" Jon said when Ghost stopped worrying at his forearm. "I thought you'd died on me, like Robb and Ygritte and all the rest. I've had no sense of you, not since I climbed the Wall, not even in dreams." The direwolf had no answer, but he licked Jon's face with a tongue like a wet rasp, and his eyes caught the last light and shone like two great red suns.

Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre's. He had a weirwood's eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they'd found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.

He had his answer then.

[Gendels Children]

Not aSoIaF, strictly speaking, but gotta be this:

Dunk looked at Egg and silently mouthed the words clout in the ear. The boy grinned .

Pretty much all "clout" scenes are lovely in how he never actually harms Egg.

aah loved that so much laughed so hard the first time I read it.... still gives me giggles

[Queen Elsa]

I was reading this and had to share my feeling.. I LOVE THIS WHOLE SCENE SO MUCH.. ALL OF IT.. mouth watering with awesomeness, I forgot how good it was

That's a great scene indeed.

Some of the best lines for me:

“I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back.”

“So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.”

“When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.”

“Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips”

“Not all men are meant to dance with dragons.”

[HemoCorvus]

"Give me half a reason to dance with you, and we shall see who is laughing at the end."

Ser Barristan gives me the chills

[cabo]

Lots of great lines, and I'll apologize if this one has been posted. I haven't read all 14 pages. From AFFC

"The Drowned God gives every man a gift, even him; no man could piss longer or farther than Aeron Greyjoy, as he proved at every feast. Once he bet his new longship against a herd of goats that he could quench a hearthfire with no more than his cock. Aeron feasted on goat for a year, and named the longship 'Golden Storm', though Balon threatened to hang him from her mast when he heard what sort of a ram his brother proposed to mount upon her prow."