How Long Can Hate Hold A Thing Together?

How long can hate hold a thing together? 

the women of the dance:

“The great Lords would have given us another two years of war […] it was the women who made the peace.”

jodie comer as rhaenyra targaryen, natalie portman as alicent hightower, alexandra dowling as helaena targaryen, lucy griffiths as alysanne blackwood, rebecca ferguson as johanna lannister, juliet aubrey as jeyne arryn, alicia vikander as the unnamed lady tyrell, and jodhi may as elenda baratheon

She had played the dutiful daughter, the blushing bride, the pliant wife. She had suffered Robert’s drunken groping, Jaime’s jealousy, Renly’s mockery, Varys with his titters, Stannis endlessly grinding his teeth. She had contended with Jon Arryn, Ned Stark, and her vile, treacherous, murderous dwarf brother, all the while promising herself that one day it would be her turn.

I have seen [her] in my fires, fleeing from this marriage they have made for her. Coming here, to you. A girl in grey on a dying horse, I have seen it plain as day.

(requested by @wierwolf)

Sansa I, A Clash of Kings

Queen Sharra of the Vale, regent for her son Ronnel, took refuge in the Eyrie, looked to her defenses, and sent an army to the Bloody Gate, gateway to the Vale of Arryn. In her youth Queen Sharra had been lauded as “the Flower of the Mountain,” the fairest maid in all the Seven Kingdoms. Perhaps hoping to sway Aegon with her beauty, she sent him a portrait of herself and offered herself to him in marriage, provided he named her son Ronnel as his heir. Though the portrait did finally reach him, it is not known whether Aegon Targaryen ever replied to her proposal; he had two queens already, and Sharra Arryn was by then a faded flower, ten years his elder.

requested by @edythofhastings