❝ This could be the room of any small boy, but it just happens to belong to a boy named Christopher Robin. Like most small boys, Christopher Robin has toy animals to play with, and they all live together in a wonderful world of make-believe. But his best friend is a bear called Winnie the Pooh, or Pooh, for short. Now, Pooh had some very unusual adventures, and they all happened right here in the Hundred-Acre Wood
There’s no such thing as a painless lesson.
#LIFE LESSONS FROM FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST #YOUR WAR IS PROBABLY NOT JUSTIFIED #HUMAN BEINGS ARE WORTHY OF RESPECT NO MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE OUTSIDE#GIVE MORE THAN YOU RECEIVE #IT IS EASY TO TAKE A LIFE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO RETURN IT #DON’T MAKE EXCUSES FOR YOUR MISTAKES #DON’T ASK FOR FORGIVENESS; WORK FOR IT #VALUE THE PEOPLE YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH #NEVER GIVE UP
And then there’s Sansa. Sansa Stark who named her deadly, killer direwolf Lady. And she trained her to be gentle, and quiet, and sweet and loving. And then what happens? The Baratheons have her killed. So now Sansa is so alone, having lost her family, her home and her Lady. But she is the exact opposite of what her father said would happen to wolves who end up alone. Ned Stark said that the only way they could survive was to stick together, and that was never an option. Robb had their mother. Rickon and Bran had Winterfell and then each other. Jon is on the wall, with his brothers, and then across it with Ygritte, then back to the wall. Arya had Gendry, and is still linked to Nymeria. But Sansa has absolutely no one who is her family. So she takes the strength and poise of a lady, and turns it into something as deadly and defensive as a direwolf’s fangs and claws. She knows that she is alone, and that no one is coming for her, so she adapts. She plays the game, she keeps her mouth shut, she stays alive.
Because the best way to hide a wolf, to keep people feeling safe, is to make them think it’s just a well trained dog.
You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles.
its five-year mission… to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air, and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
