>"At Riverrun, Catelyn Stark seemed convinced I'd sent some footpad to slit her son's throat. That I'd given him a dagger."
>"There was a dagger. The scars on Lady Catelyn's hands were real enough, she showed them to me. Did you . . . ?"
>"Oh, don't be absurd." Cersei closed the window. "Yes, I hoped the boy would die. So did you. Even Robert thought that would have been for the best. 'We kill our horses when they break a leg, and our dogs when they go blind, but we are too weak to give the same mercy to crippled children,' he told me. He was blind himself at the time, from drink."
-- ASOS, Jaime IX

Proof Robert wanted Bran dead. Note that his rationale is the same as the killer's:

>He was a small, dirty man in filthy brown clothing, and he stank of horses. Catelyn knew all the men who worked in their stables, and he was none of them. He was gaunt, with limp blond hair and pale eyes deep-sunk in a bony face, and there was a dagger in his hand.
>Catelyn looked at the knife, then at Bran. "No," she said. The word stuck in her throat, the merest whisper.
>He must have heard her. "It's a mercy," he said. "He's dead already."
-- AGOT, Catelyn III

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