Sansa & Tyrion (requested by anonymous)

Using social expectations as armor, particularly those that are seen as weaknesses:

“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.”

-Tyrion, AGOT

A lady’s armor is courtesy.

-Sansa, ACOK

Abused as children:

“I only want to be loyal.”   

“Loyal,” the dwarf mused, “and far from any Lannisters. I can scarce blame you for that. When I was your age, I wanted the same thing.”

- Sansa, ACOK

Traumatic experiences of marriage contrasting with idealistic views of what marriage should be:

It was not supposed to be this way. She had dreamed of her wedding a thousand times, and always she had pictured how her betrothed would stand behind her tall and strong, sweep the cloak of his protection over her shoulders, and tenderly kiss her cheek as he leaned forward to fasten the clasp. 

-Sansa, ASOS

“The first time I wed, there was us and a drunken septon, and some pigs to bear witness. We ate one of our witnesses at our wedding feast. Tysha fed me crackling and I licked the grease off her fingers, and we were laughing when we fell into bed.”

-Sansa, ASOS

Well versed in the heraldry and history of the nobility:

He belonged to Lord Tywin, but the fierce, bearded young man who liked to walk the battlements alone in a black cloak patterned with white suns had been taken by some hedge knight who meant to get rich off him. Sansa would have known who he was, and the fat one too, but Arya had never taken much interest in titles and sigils.

-Arya, ASOS

“The Boltons skin their enemies.” Jaime remembered that much about the northman. Tyrion would have known all there was to know about the Lord of the Dreadfort, but Tyrion was a thousand leagues away, with Cersei.

-Jaime, ASOS

Know how to act in social situations:

Sansa would have sighed and shed a tear for true love, but Arya just thought it was stupid. She couldn’t say that to Ned, though, not about his own aunt.

- Arya, ASOS

Once Jaime might have countered with a smile and a threat, but one-handed cripples do not inspire much fear. He wondered what his brother would do. Tyrion would find a way.

-Jaime, ASOS

Idealism crushed by the world:

Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her father’s head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

-Sansa, ASOS 

He had dreamed enough for one small life. And of such follies: love, justice, friendship, glory. As well dream of being tall. It was all beyond his reach, Tyrion knew now.

-Tyrion, ADWD

Want to marry for love:

The thought made Sansa weary. All she knew of Robert Arryn was that he was a little boy, and sickly. It is not me she wants her son to marry, it is my claim. No one will ever marry me for love.

-Sansa, ASOS

The Stark girl is young, nubile, tractable, of the highest birth, and still a maid. She is not uncomely. Why would you hesitate?“   

Why indeed? “A quirk of mine. Strange to say, I would prefer a wife who wants me in her bed.”  

-Tyrion, ASOS

Love of stories:

She pulled a chair close to the hearth, took down one of her favorite books, and lost herself in the stories of Florian and Jonquil, of Lady Shella and the Rainbow Knight, of valiant Prince Aemon and his doomed love for his brother’s queen.   

- Sansa, AGOT

“What are you reading about?” [Jon] asked.   

“Dragons,” Tyrion told him.

“What good is that? There are no more dragons,” the boy said with the easy certainty of youth.   

“So they say,” Tyrion replied. “Sad, isn’t it? When I was your age, I used to dream of having a dragon of my own.”

-Tyrion, AGOT

She did not say it, though.

for Veronika ♥

gif request meme » detectivegibson  asked:
↳ Doctor Who + favorite romantic relationship → Amelia Pond and Rory Williams               You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful - and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick; but then there’s other people. And you meet them and you think, “Not bad, they’re okay”, and when you get to know them… their face just, sort of, becomes them, like their personality’s written all over it and they just… they turn into something so beautiful. Rory’s the most beautiful man I’ve ever met.

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