{{This is the time of day that I love best, the early evening. Then I can walk around the ramparts surrounding Winterfell and the sky turn amethyst over the godswood.
Everybody has sworn obedience to me and since this is my home, at last I feel loved and secure.}}
{{Sansa kept her gaze on the red embers in the grate. It was so quiet and the years of happiness for her and her family were over.
The queen in the North had lost all her fears and also her joy.}}
I can’t feel anything, not anymore.
{{The fire crackled and that was all.}}
Is it true?
{{Sansa wondered hearing that her mother and brother Robb were both enemies of the crown.
Must Robb and her lady mother die next?
The gods seemed to play tricks on mortal kind.}}
I wish to see the red comet.
{{The Queen in the North walked in silence to the white wood sacred forest.
The snow lay on the ground, and she felt the hem of her gown growing heavy and clinging to her boots.
Without Bran, Arya and Jon, Sansa has grown used to being alone. The crown had a price.}}
{{Sansa still had dreams about going to Kings Landing with her father and the aftermath.
She would wake up crying and jerking upright on the bed, her heart pounding and her body dewed in sweat. But she was now the queen and that had happened long ago.}}
It’s just a dream.
Let me see my mother!!!
{{A nightmare, nothing but a nightmare while she wakes up under scented linen. Her mother, father and brothers were gone and yet Sansa lives on.}}
I wish I could take back so many things.
Sweet summer children.
{{This is how old nan called them all, as she told them tales about the past, when the wind brought tears to eyes and the tears froze.
Sansa’s head bent down, against the snow, which was falling heavily now.}}
{{You do not know the Northern lands, for when winter comes, death comes with it.
Snow blossoms first, muffling sounds, masking colours and the cold is bitter.
The icicles hang from the eaves and branches snap like sugar candy, though you can’t eat them.}}
{{I try and act as if I am always confident, for lack of confidence gets you killed.
I hear my mother’s words and my father’s too. I’m glad they cannot see me now.}}
There is Winter in my heart and I am the ice queen.
{{If a husband destroys what a wife brings to him: loses the house, beats and abuses her, then the wife can do nothing. Except kill the husband}}
I killed my monstrous husband and I don’t regret it.
{{By the law of the land, a wife cannot own anything independently of her husband. Not her house, not her children, NOT HERSELF. No matter who he is.}} ~~
Look how far I have come.
{{I don’t look behind, because it makes me tremble. I am dangling on this rope of life, like a hooked trout, but at least I have a crown.}}
At first I felt nothing but terror.
{{I was a captive, I was a pawn, cooped up in stuffy rooms. The only joy I had was being allowed into the gods wood, joy of being outside the castle and feeling the wind on my face.}}
{{The queen in the North was walking among the weirwood trees, since it brought her peace.
At times she heard faint voices and almost saw things, ghostly things. There was a certain magic in the Stark line and so she glanced at the white tree and sighed.}}
Strange.
I am neither a saint, nor a traitor.
{{For my beauty, I suffered. I will admit that I was foolish at times. But I am now above these judgements, I am a queen.}}
I paid a heavy price for the crown.