What has been a subtle moment that has made you sad?

[Lady Beyond the Wall]

Run, Weasel, run as far as you can, run and hide and never come back.

Yes this.

And also, Maester Cressen not being called to feast. His thoughts were so sad.

[Littlefingers In The Air]

Also, the way describes the final moments of the Red Viper/Mountain fight. To see Tyrion go from what must have been excitement into despair was hard at the time.

[The Wolves]

Arya thinking that no one has ever called her beautiful but her father and Jon and how Jon wouldn't recognize blind Beth.

Bran thinking that his brothers and sisters could learn to fly and be ravens in Maester Luwin's raven thing.

Rickon waiting in the crypts for his father saying he was coming home like he promised.

Sansa praying for her family in the sept

[Good King Daemon]

In AFFC at Tommens wedding feast when he starts coughing and Cersei thinks he's choking. I know she's done some horrible things but that really made me feel for Cersei and then she has to rush out of the hall so no one sees her crying.

" Alone beneath a tallow candle, she allowed herself a shuddering sob, then another. A woman may weep, but not a queen".

[V Targaryen]

There are a lot of moments that really just tear at your heart, especially on a reread. I agree with so many of these posted, but when I was reading Tyrion at I think the Battle of Blackwater? when he rides past the knight begging to yield. Tyrion thinks he is offering his gauntlet, but then realizes the knight's hand is in it and rides off. That was like a punch to the gut when I read it again.

[Valyrian Spoon]

One I found pretty sad was the dying Piper soldier Arya and the hound came across after the RW. When he told the story of drinking toasts with the Bolton man before he attacked him.

It made me think about the RW from a soldiers perspective rather than a Stark/Tully one. Heres a guy fighting for a lord he's never met, whose sworn to a king fighting to avenge a man who meant nothing to him personally and it gets him killed at a wedding party by some guy who probably seemed pretty decent before somebody gave him a signal.

[Slackylc]

While I'm new to the forum, it's the first time I see someone pointing out Catelyn's inner thoughts, the time she actually is obligated to act differently, concealing her struggle. Her chapters in ASoS are so well written, sometimes they almost brought me to tears. I think her quotes that can make one sad are endless. Pffffff......*sigh*.

I agree, Catelyn's chapters are superbly written, you see what is just an extremely worried, and also heartbroken, mother. A few time she's talking about how she needs to be a mother to Robb, but there's no one to look after her after Ned's death.

Compare her motherly instincts to Cersei's in AFfC, there's a huge contrast.

[WeirwoodTreeHugger]

Brienne remembering the harassment she had to put up with at Renly's camp.

Any of the destroyed villages in the Riverlands.

One of Ramsay's bitches being named Beth.

Sansa dreaming about Lady at the end of AGOT.

Arya thinking Catelyn and Robb won't want her anymore.

Jon and Bran almost, but not quite meeting.

Big and Little Walder picking on Hodor. My autistic brother is a gentle giant type, so I took it personally.

The Unsullied who goes to a brothel to cuddle.

[no_payne_no_gain]

In DwD... Melisandre tells Jon that his sister is coming to the wall..... his emotional reaction to that is heartbreaking because we know it isn't true.

[Slackylc]

Brienne remembering the harassment she had to put up with at Renly's camp.

The Unsullied who goes to a brothel to cuddle.

Actually yes, this is definitely one of a saddest subtle moments without a doubt.

[Mark Antony]

"I have need of every man who knows which end of the spear to stab into the Wildlings."

"The pointy end" Jon had told his little sister something like that once, He remembered.

[nillingar]

Another thing I just remembered was when Loras said

"When the sun has set, no candle can replace it"

:crying:

[Tim Stark]

When Sam departs for old town in feast, the whole resemblance to the last time Jon saw Robb really got to me.

[Lord Puff Fish]

When Rickon dreamt of his father, just before they got the raven saying that Ned had been executed. Poor little guy.

[Bippy]

When Robb says to Catelyn, "You don't have to. I'm the king."

She's all geared up for some awful teenager argument (where she's on the wrong side, IMO) and he says, nah, no need for this. She's got the moment she's been striving toward all his life. Very bittersweet.

[Dany Girl]

When Ned is about to kill Lady and he thinks about how trusting she still is :crying: :bawl: :crying:

[Pearlthegirl]

All of these, sniff sniff and:

Rise, she thought. Rise and eat and run with us. --Nymeria/Arya

[northernshe-wolf]

When Jon smiled sadly and told Sam to pull his hood up, because there were snowflakes melting in his hair. :crying:

And that Unsullied who went to brothels for hugs made me sniffle.

[~No One~]

The Unsullied who goes to a brothel to cuddle.

Aww, yeah! :(

[Sweet-N-SourRobin]

In retrospect, this Sansa/Jeyne Poole scene from A Game Of Thrones:

"The kitchen yielded no lemon cakes, but they did find half of a cold strawberry pie, and that was almost as good. They ate it on the tower steps, giggling and gossiping and sharing secrets, and Sansa went to bed that night feeling almost as wicked as Arya."

:frown5: :frown5: :frown5: