Athena Nassar, From "Love Is Not Always Song, But The Swelling"

Athena Nassar, from "Love Is Not Always Song, but the Swelling"

"I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't ok to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it."

— Carol Lee, To Die For

“She’s a dangerous woman, the kind that plays with fire and with such wildness in her heart. So many men who try to tame her always fail, for they never understood that the forest in her was sown from the start. In the moonlight alone her secret is revealed, she has the spirit of a wolf that belongs only to herself, to the earth and to the dark.”

— Half Woman, Half Wolf | Nikita Gill (via untamedunwanted)

"seems to me that claiming a throne just because of a name has little honour in it," alfwyn sits calmly, concentrating as he re-affixes the seal-bone tip to his spear (the previous spear pole having been shattered in battle days gone). "southerners go on thinkin' a name means something. it don't. had you been born in the true north, you'd not have got a name until you survived two years of life ... names, house names, kings names; all just words with pretend weight tied on them." the spear rests now on his shoulder as he looks up at the dark haired once-crow; "tormund is a mad fuck, always has been, but he's not so mad to drag his kin into ... all this ... for some southern king named rhaegar ... we came for the man called jon snow. so, which one are you?"

"I   have   no   desire   to   claim   a   throne   or   a   name.   Rhaegar   is   nothing   but   a   name   and   blood.   And   one   that   holds   no   honor   to   me."   No   meaning.   No   honor.   If   anything,   the   thought   brings   him   shame.   He   is   still   a   bastard   in   the   Gods'   eyes.   A   man   pushed   his   lawful   wife   away   for   another   woman   and   the   result,   was   him.   No.   There   is   nothing   to   be   proud   of   in   his   blood.   "I   would   rather   remain   a   Snow   than   to   claim   a   name   so   tainted."

Kylie Bunbury in “Tut”