A character in Game of Thrones
Played by Michelle Fairley
Game of Thrones · 356 quotes
In 15 of the 356 quotes from Game of Thrones
Most scenes with: Robb Stark (4), Roose Bolton (3), Walder Frey (3)
Lord Stark! My lady. A guardsman just rode in from the hills. They've captured a deserter from the Night's Watch.
Get the lads to saddle their horses.
Catelyn StarkDo you have to?
He swore an oath, Cat.
Law is law, my lady.
Tell Bran he's coming too. [Rodrik nods and heads off]
Catelyn StarkNed. 10 is too young to see such things.
He won't be a boy forever. And winter is coming.
[King Robert Baratheon pays a visit to Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell]
Your Grace.
You got fat.
[Ned looks at him with a cocked eyebrow as if to say "Look who's talking", then they both burst out laughing and hug.]
Cat! [hugs and kisses Catelyn.]
Catelyn StarkYour Grace.
Nine years! Why have I not seen you? Where the hell have you been?
Guarding the North for you, Your Grace. Winterfell is yours.
[Queen Cersei steps out of the carriage after her children with a distasteful look on her face.]
Where's the Imp?
Will you shut up?
[to Robb] And who have we here? You must be Robb. [to Sansa] My, you're a pretty one. And your name is...
Arya.
[to Bran] Ohhh, show us your muscles. You'll be a soldier!
[Robert chuckles and moves back towards Ned. Behind him, Jaime Lanniser removes his helmet]
That's Jaime Lannister, the Queen's twin brother.
Would you please shut up?!
[Cersei walks up to Ned and offers her hand; after a moment, Eddard kisses it.]
My Queen.
Catelyn StarkMy Queen.
Take me to your crypt, I want to pay my respects.
We've been riding for a month, my love. Surely, the dead can wait.
Ned.
[Turns towards the crypts, followed hesitantly by Ned.]
Where's the Imp?
[Cersei overhears her and goes back over to Jaime]
Where is our brother? Go and find the little beast!
[At the Crossroads Inn, Tyrion recognizes Catelyn Stark travelling in disguise]
Lady Stark! What an unexpected pleasure. I was sorry to have missed you at Winterfell.
[curtsies] Lady Stark.
Catelyn StarkI was still Catelyn Tully the last time I stayed here. [to a knight sitting at another table] You, ser, is that the black bat of Harrenhal I see embroidered on your coat?
It is, my lady.
Catelyn StarkAnd is Lady Whent a true and honest friend to my father, Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun?
She is.
Catelyn Stark[pause; to another knight] The red stallion was always a welcome sight at Riverrun. My father counts Jonos Bracken amongst his oldest and most loyal bannermen.
Our Lord is honoured by his trust.
I envy your father all his fine friends, Lady Stark, but I don't quite see the purpose of this.
Catelyn Stark[to a third knight] I know your sigil, as well. The Twin Towers of Frey. How fares your lord, ser?
Lord Walder is well, my lady. He has asked your father for the honour of his presence on his 90th nameday. He plans to take another wife.
Catelyn Stark[turns to Tyrion] This man came into my house as a guest and there conspired to murder my son, a boy of ten. In the name of King Robert and the good lords you serve, I call upon you to seize him and help me return him to Winterfell to await the king's justice!
[The knights draw their swords and point them at a shocked Tyrion]
[on his new wife] You see that? Fifteen, she is. A little flower, and the honey's all mine.
Catelyn StarkI'm sure she will give you many sons.
Hah! Your father didn't come to the wedding.
Catelyn StarkHe is quite ill, my Lord.
He didn't come to the last one, either. Or the one before that. Your family's always pissed on me.
Catelyn StarkMy Lord, I...
Don't deny it, you know it's true. The fine Lord Tully would never marry any of his children to mine.
Catelyn StarkI'm sure there are reasons...
I didn't need reasons. I needed to get rid of sons and daughters. You see how they pile up? Why are you here?
Catelyn StarkTo ask you to open your gates, my Lord. So that my son and his bannermen may cross the Trident and be on their way.
Why should I let him?
Catelyn StarkIf you could climb your own battlements, you would see that he has twenty thousand men outside your walls.
They'll be twenty thousand corpses, when Tywin Lannister gets here. Don't try and frighten me, Lady Stark. Your husband's in a cell beneath the Red Keep, and your son's got no fur to keep his balls warm!
Catelyn StarkYou swore an oath to my father.
Oh, yes, I said some words, but then I swore oaths to the Crown too, if I remember right. Joffrey's' King now, which makes your boy and his corpses-to-be nothing but rebels, it seems to me. If I had the sense the gods gave to a fish, I'd hand you both over to the Lannisters.
Catelyn StarkWhy don't you?
Stark, Tully, Lannister, Baratheon...give me one good reason why I should waste a single thought on any of you.
Lady Stark, I'd offer you my sword, but, I seem to have lost it.
Catelyn StarkIt is not your sword I want. Give me my daughters back, give me my husband.
I've lost them too, I'm afraid.
Kill him, Robb; send his head back to his father. He cut down ten of our men.
He's more use to us alive than dead.
Catelyn StarkTake him away and put him in irons.
We could end this war right now boy, save thousands of lives. I fight for the Lannisters, you fight for the Starks. Swords, knives, teeth, nails; choose your weapon, and we can end this.
If we did it your way, Kingslayer, you'd win. We're not doing it your way.
Come on, pretty man!
I sent 2,000 men to their graves today.
The bards will sing songs of their sacrifice.
Aye, but the dead won't hear them. One victory does not make us conquerers. Did we free my father? Did we free my sisters from the Queen? Did we free the North from those who'd have us on our knees? This war is far from over.
Lady Stark, I had not thought to find you in the Stormlands.
Catelyn StarkI had not thought to be here, Lord Stannis.
Can that truly be you?
Who else might it be?
When I saw your standard, I couldn't be sure. Whose banner is that?
My own.
I suppose if we use the same one, the battle will be terribly confusing. Why is your stag on fire?
The king has taken for his sigil the fiery heart of the Lord of Light.
Ah, you must be this fire priestess we hear so much about. Ah brother, now I understand why you found religion in your old age!
Watch yourself, Renly!
No, no, I'm relieved. I never really believed you were a fanatic; charmless, rigid, a bore, yes, but not a godly man.
You should kneel before your brother. He is the Lord's Chosen, born amidst salt and smoke.
"Born amidst salt and smoke?" Is he a ham?
That's twice I've warned you.
Catelyn StarkListen to yourselves! If you were sons of mine, I would knock your heads together and lock you in a bedchamber together until you remember you're brothers.
It is strange to find you beside my brother, Lady Stark. Your husband was a supporter of my claim; Lord Eddard's integrity cost him his head. And you sit beside this pretender and chastise me?
Catelyn StarkWe share a common enemy!
The Iron Throne is mine by right. All those who deny that are my foes.
The whole realm denies it, from Dorne to the Wall. Old men deny it with their death rattles and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. No one wants you for their king. You never wanted any friends, brother, but a man without friends is a man without power.
For the sake of the mother who bore us, I will give you this one night to reconsider. Strike your banners, come to me before dawn and I will grant you your old seat on the Council. I'll even name you my heir, until a son is born to me. Otherwise I shall destroy you.
Look across those fields, brother. Can you see all those banners?
You think a few bolts of cloth will make you king?
No. The men holding those bolts of cloth will make me king!
We shall see, Renly. Come the dawn, we shall see.
Look to your sins, Lord Renly. The night is dark and full of terrors.
[Renly and Catelyn watch them leave]
Would you believe? I loved him once.
Once you're safely back amongst your own people, will you give me leave to go, my lady?
Catelyn StarkYou mean to kill Stannis.
I swore a vow.
Catelyn StarkBut Stannis has a great army around him. His own guards are sworn to keep him safe.
I'm as good as any of them. I should never have fled.
Catelyn StarkRenly's death was no fault of yours. You served him bravely.
I only held him that once as he was dying.
Catelyn StarkHe's gone, Brienne. You serve nothing and no one by following him into the earth. Renly's enemies are Robb's enemies as well.
I do not know your son, my lady, but I could serve you if you would have me. You have courage. Not battle courage perhaps, but, I don't know, a woman's kind of courage. And I think that when the time comes, you will not hold me back. Promise me that you will not hold me back from Stannis.
Catelyn StarkWhen the time comes, I will not hold you back.
[draws her sword and places it on he ground, kneeling] Then I am yours, my lady. I will shield your back and will give my life for yours if it comes to that. I swear it by the Old Gods and the New.
Catelyn Stark[holds Brienne's hand] I vow that you shall always have a place in my home and at my table, and that I shall ask no service of you that might bring you dishonour. I swear it by the Old Gods and the New.
[Robb Stark learns that Theon Greyjoy has betrayed him and seized Winterfell]
This cannot be true.
We've had ravens from White Harbour, Barrowtown and the Dreadfort, my lord. I'm afraid it is true.
Why? Why would Theon...
Because the Greyjoys are treasonous whores.
My brothers?
We've heard nothing of them... but Rodrik Cassell is dead.
Catelyn StarkI told you, never trust a Greyjoy!
I must go north at once.
There's still a war to win, Your Grace!
How can I call myself King if I can't hold my own castle? How can I ask men to follow me if...
You are a king! And that means you don't have to do everything yourself.
Catelyn StarkLet me go and talk to Theon.
There will be no talk, he will die for this!
Theon holds the castle with a skeleton crew. Let me send word to my bastard at the Dreadfort; he can raise a few hundred men and retake Winterfell before the new moon. We have the Lannisters on the run; if you march all the way back north now, you lose what you gained. My boy would be honoured to bring you Prince Theon's head.
Tell your son Bran and Rickon's safety is paramount. And Theon... I want him brought to me alive. I want to look him in the eye and ask him why, and then I will take his head myself!
Come to say goodbye, Lady Stark? I believe it's my last night in this world. [looks at Brienne] Is that a woman?
Catelyn StarkDo you hear them out there? They want your head.
Well, old Lord Karstark doesn't seem to like me.
Catelyn StarkYou strangled his son with your chains.
Oh. Oh, was he the one on guard duty? He was in my way. Any knight would have done the same.
Catelyn StarkYou are no knight. You have forsaken every vow you ever took.
So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another. Where did you find this beast?
Catelyn StarkShe is a truer knight than you will ever be, Kingslayer.
Kingslayer. And what a King he was! Here's to Aerys Targaryen, the second of his name, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, and to the sword I shoved in his back!
Catelyn StarkYou are a man without honour.
Do you know I've never been with any woman but Cersei? So in my own way, I have more honour than poor old dead Ned. What was the name of the bastard he fathered?
Catelyn StarkBrienne.
No, that wasn't it. Snow, a bastard from the North. Now when–when good old Ned came home with some whore's baby, did you pretend to love it? No. You're not very good at pretending. You're an honest woman. You hated that boy, didn't you? How could you not hate him? The walking, talking reminder that the honourable Lord Eddard Stark fucked another woman.
Catelyn Stark[to Brienne] Your sword.
May I help you, Lady Stark?
Catelyn StarkNo.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have-
Catelyn StarkYou can't help because a mother makes one for her children to protect them. Only a mother can make them.
You've made them before?
Catelyn StarkTwice.
Did they work?
Catelyn StarkAfter a fashion. I prayed for my son Bran to survive his fall. Many years before that, one of the boys came down with the pox. Maester Luwin said if he made it through the night, he'd live. But it would be a very long night. So I sat with him all through the darkness, listened to his ragged little breaths, his coughing, his whimpering.
Which boy?
Catelyn StarkJon Snow. When my husband brought that baby home from the war, I couldn't bear to look at him, didn't want to see those brown stranger's eyes staring at me. So I prayed to the gods "Take him away, make him die". He got the pox and I knew I was the worst woman who ever lived. A murderer. I'd condemned this poor, innocent child to a horrible death all because I was jealous of his mother, a woman he didn't even know! So I prayed to all Seven Gods "Let the boy live. Let him live and I'll love him. I'll be a mother to him. I'll beg my husband to give him a true name, to call him Stark and be done with it, to make him one of us".
And he lived?
Catelyn StarkAnd he lived. And I couldn't keep my promise. And everything that's happened since then, all this horror that's come to my family...it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child.
After thirty years of fighting, I... I think he'd forgotten what started' it! He asked me to stop calling myself "Blackfish". Said it was an old joke, and it was never funny to begin with. I told him, "People have been calling me 'Blackfish' for so long, I don't remember my real name!"
Catelyn StarkEvery time he left for the Capitol, or to fight in a campaign, I'd see him off. "Wait for me, Little Cat" he'd say, "Wait for me and I'll come back to you." And I would sit at this window every day when the sun came up, waiting. I wonder how many times did Bran and Rickon stare across the moors of Winterfell, waiting for me to return?! I will never see them again!
You musn't think it. We don't know it. They could be in hiding. Robb believes they're alive. And, he must go on believing. He's got to remain strong if he's going to prevail, and you must remain strong for him.
It took five of you to murder two unarmed squires?
Not murder, Your Grace. Vengeance.
Vengeance? Those boys didn't kill your sons. I saw Harrion die on the battlefield, and Torrhen...
Was strangled by the Kingslayer. They were his kin.
THEY WERE BOYS! Look at them.
Tell your mother to look at them. She killed them as much as I.
My mother had nothing to do with this. This was your treason.
It's treason to free your enemies! In war, you kill your enemies! Did your father not teach you that, boy?!
[Brynden Tully punches Karstark in the face]
Leave him.
Aye. Leave me to the king. He wants to give me a scolding before he sets me free. That's how he deals with treason. Our King in the North. Or should I call him the King Who Lost the North?
Escort Lord Karstark to the dungeon. Hang the rest.
Mercy, sire! I didn't kill anyone, I only watched for the guards.
This one was only the watcher. Hang him last so he can watch the others die.
Please! Please don't, they made me do it! They made me! They made me...!
[The prisoners are dragged out; Robb sits at his desk, contemplating what to do about Karstark.]
Word of this can't leave Riverrun. They were Tywin Lannister's nephews; the Lannisters pay their debts - they never stop talking about that.
Would you make me a liar as well as a murderer?
It wouldn't be lying. We'll bury them and remain silent until the war is done.
I'm not fighting for justice if I don't serve justice to murderers in my ranks, no matter how highborn! He has to die.
Catelyn StarkThe Karstarks are Northmen. They won't forgive the killing of their Lord.
Your mother's right. If you do this, the Karstarks will abandon you.
You tended to their wounds, you brought them supper. Now they're dead.
And more boys will keep dying until this war is over! You need Karstark men to end it!
Catelyn StarkSpare his life, keep him as a hostage.
A hostage. Tell the Karstarks that as long as they remain loyal, he will not be harmed.
Catelyn StarkHe complained about this marriage the entire way from Riverrun, and now look at him.
The Gods love to reward a fool.
Catelyn StarkUncle!
What? He's my nephew, I love him, and, he's a damn fool.
[Next to them, Roose Bolton prevents a servant girl from pouring him wine.]
Catelyn StarkDon't you drink, Lord Bolton?
Never do, my Lady, dulls the senses.
That's the point. Didn't you marry one of these Frey girls?
Aye, Lord Walder let me choose any of his granddaughters and promised me the girl's weight in silver as a dowry. So, I have a fat young bride.
Catelyn StarkI hope she makes you very happy.
Well, she's made me very rich.
Pardon, my Lord, my Lady, I need to find a tree to piss on.
[To Robb] Your Grace, I fear I've been, remiss in my duties. I've given you meat and wine and music, but, I haven't shown you the hospitality you deserve. My king has married and I owe my new queen a wedding gift.
[Catelyn notices Roose Bolton is wearing chain mail, and slaps him]
Catelyn StarkRobb!
[Robb turns just as Roose Bolton flees from his chair and Lothar Frey walks up behind Talisa and stab her repeatedly in the stomach]
The King in the North arises!
[Catelyn takes Walder's wife hostage and holds a knife to her throat.]
Catelyn StarkLord Walder! Lord Walder, enough! Let it end! Please! He is my son, my first son! Let him go and I swear we will forget this, I swear it by the old gods and the new, we will take no vengeance!
You already swore me one oath, right here in my castle. You swore by all the gods that your son would marry my daughter!
Catelyn StarkTake me for your hostage! But let Robb go. Robb get up, get up and walk out, please! Please!
And why would I let him do that?
Catelyn StarkOn my honor as a Tully, On my honor as a Stark! Let Robb go, or I will cut your wife's throat!
I'll find another.
Mother...
The Lannisters send their regards.
[Roose stabs Robb through the heart. Catelyn screams as she cuts Jeyhousse's throat. Black Walder comes up behind her and slits her throat]]
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