cersei quotes

posting quotes from asoiaf, in celebration of cersei lannister, she with claws and teeth sharper than most, the golden queen of the seven kingdoms, a lioness wearing human skin. she who takes us on a chaotic ride of paranoia and brewing madness. to the light of the west!

she would not give them the pleasure of hearing her beg. 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. — cersei ii, a dance with dragons.

within the tower, the smoke from the torches irritated her eyes, but cersei did not weep, no more than her father would have. i am the only true son he ever had. — cersei i, a feast for crows.

the outer castle was so hushed that she could have believed all its people dead. they should be. it is not fitting for tywin lannister to die alone. such a man deserves a retinue to attend his needs in hell. — cersei i, a feast for crows.

"were you always this slow, or did losing a hand make you stupid?" — cersei iii, a feast for crows.

my son is safe, cersei told herself. no harm can come to him, not here, not now. yet every time she looked at tommen, she saw joffrey clawing at his throat. — cersei iii, a feast for crows.

behind closed doors, desire runs rampant, and never more so than when the king departed on his hunts. on the very same sheets robert screamed the name of lyanna stark, cersei whispers another. chapter — cersei vi, a feast for crows.

"i should have been born a man. i would have no need of any of you then." — tyrion v, a clash of kings.

she had never looked more beautiful than she did that day, with a smile on her lips and the autumn sunlight shining on her golden hair. whatever else one might say about his sister, she did know how to make men love her when she cared enough to try. — jaime ii, affc.

tyrion lannister shouldered through the door, feeling almost tall [...] "you," his sister cersei said in a tone that was equal parts disbelief and distaste. "i can see where joffrey learned his courtesies." — tyrion i, a clash of kings.

she imagined how sweet it would be to slam an elbow into septa scolera's face and send her careening down the spiral steps. if the gods were good, the wrinkled old cunt might crash into septa unella and take her down with her. — cersei i, a dance with dragons.

the dwarf would come for her as well, the queen knew, just as the old woman had promised her in the dimness of that tent. i laughed in her face, but she had powers. i saw my future in a drop of blood. my doom. — cersei i, a feast for crows.

she slapped him. "be gentle, cersei, i'm only jesting with you. if truth be told, i'd sooner have a nice whore. i never understood what jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection." she slapped him. — tyrion i, a clash of kings.

"protector of the realm," she read. "is this meant to be your shield, my lord? a piece of paper?" she ripped the letter in half, ripped the halves in quarters, and let the pieces flutter to the floor. — eddard xiv, a game of thrones.

why shouldn't i marry cersei openly and share her bed every night? the dragons always married their sisters. septons, lords, and smallfolk had turned a blind eye to the targaryens for hundreds of years, let them do the same for house lannister. — jaime iii, a storm of swords.

she dreamt she sat the iron throne, high above them all. — cersei i, a feast for crows.

"if it please your grace, ser robert has taken a holy vow of silence," qyburn said. "he has sworn that he will not speak until all of his grace's enemies are dead and evil has been driven from the realm." yes, thought cersei lannister. oh, yes. — cersei ii, adwd.

jaime left brothels and whores to his brother tyrion; cersei was the only woman he had ever wanted. — jaime i, a storm of swords.

"your grace has forgotten the lady sansa," said pycelle. the queen bristled. "i most certainly have not forgotten that little she-wolf." she refused to say the girl's name.  — cersei iv, a feast for crows.

"sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. love is poison. a sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same." — sansa iv, a clash of kings.

the queen put her arm around tommen and kissed his golden curls. he will need me to teach him how to rule and keep him safe from his enemies. some of them stood around them even now, pretending to be friends. — cersei ii, a feast for crows.