asoiaf meme day nine → scariest creature: White Walkers

The Others come when it is cold, most of the tales agree. Or else it gets cold when they come. Sometimes they appear during snowstorms and melt away when the skies clear. They hide from the light of the sun and emerge by night…or else night falls when they emerge. Some stories speak of them riding the corpses of dead animals. Bears, direwolves, mammoths, horses, it makes no matter, so long as the beast is dead. Men who fall in battle against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.

Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods.

Winter is coming.

Power is a curious thing. Who lives? Who dies? Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.

got meme » three colours : white/light blue

game of thrones meme: seven quotes [1/7] → Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

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A Song of Ice and Fire