GEORGE R.R MARTIN'S FIRE AND BLOOD QUOTES. all sentences here were taken from the book fire and blood which in part was adapted to hbo's house of the dragon. change pronouns, names and location as you see fit. warning for some foul language and mentions of inc*st.
“Then the storm broke, and the dragons danced.”
“A ruler needs a good head and a true heart, a cock is not essential.”
“Words are wind, but wind can fan a fire.”
“My father and my uncle fought words with steel and flame. We shall fight words with words, and put out the fires before they start.”
“The seeds of war are oft planted during times of peace.”
“Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you.”
“The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.”
“I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself.”
“Let no man think that the fire of the Targaryens did not burn in his veins.”
“We are as the gods made us. Strong and weak, good and bad, cruel and kind, heroic and selfish. Know that if you would rule over the kingdom of men.”
“This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.”
“Thrones are won with swords, not quills. Spill blood, not ink.”
“Such a fierce little thing she is, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.”
“When the gods are silent, lords and kings will make themselves heard.”
“I do not have the time for tears.”
“Pride goes before a fall.”
“It is always winter now.”
“I will not fight you, nor will I kneel to you. Dorne has no king. Tell your brother that.”
“But we will come again, Princess, and the next time we shall come with fire and blood.”
“Surely the Mother Above loved my children more. She took so many of them away from me.”
“The tradition amongst the Targaryens had always been to marry kin to kin. Wedding brother to sister was thought to be ideal. Failing that, a girl might wed an uncle, a cousin, or a nephew, a boy a cousin, aunt, or niece.”
“ This practice went back to Old Valyria, where it was common amongst many of the ancient families, particularly those who bred and rode dragons.”
“The blood of the dragon must remain pure, the wisdom went. ”
“Familiarity is the father of acceptance.”
“Brother, you need never kneel to me again. We shall rule this realm together, you and I.”
“You rose up in rebellion against your lawful queen and helped drive her from this city to her death.”
“We came here to be free of Old Valyria, and your Targaryens are Valyrian to the bone.”
“They practiced blood magic and other dark arts as well, delving deep into the earth for secrets best left buried and twisting the flesh of beasts and men to fashion monstrous and unnatural chimeras. For there sins the gods in their wroth struck them down.”
“She has such a tender heart. Give me time, and I will find a lord to cherish her.”
“Not every Targaryen needs to wield a sword and ride a dragon.”
“I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone.”
“If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes.”
“I'll have no songs about how brave you died, Kingmaker. There's tens o'thousands dead on your account.”
“Who can presume to know the heart of a dragon?”
“The Red Keep has its secrets, known only to the dead.”
“He bound the land together, and made of seven kingdoms, one.”
“Sixteen Targaryens followed Aegon the Dragon to the Iron Throne, before the dynasty was at last toppled in Robert’s Rebellion. “
“Dorne has danced with dragons before, I would sooner sleep with scorpions.”
“Winter’s here. Time for us to go. No better way to die than sword in hand.”
“The High Septon was the true king of Westeros, in all but name.”
“I will leave the making of law to you, brother, I would sooner make sons.”
“And with his death, the war of ravens and envoys and marriage pacts came to an end, and the war of fire and blood began in earnest.”
“Paying coin to the usurper is proof of naught but treason.”
“Poison was regarded as a coward’s weapon, and lacking in honor.”
“For both the blacks and the greens, blood called to blood for vengeance.”
“It was a good time, a golden autumn, a time of peace and plenty. But winter was coming.”
“The confidence of youth counts for little against the cunning of age.”
“Thankfully I proved too small for the wolf to notice.”
“Such stories make for charming songs, but poor history.”
“Why be a lord when you can be a king?”
“Only the gods truly know the hearts of men, and women are full as strange.”
“Whatever her powers, it would seem Daemon Targaryen was immune to them, for little is heard of this supposed sorceress whilst the prince held Harrenhal.”
“They called themselves the Winter Wolves.”
“We have come to die for the dragon queen.”
“Under the terms of the pact, the prince’s firstborn daughter would be sent north at the age of seven, to be fostered at Winterfell until such time as she was old enough to marry Lord Cregan’s heir.”
“For the rank and file of the City Watch still loved Daemon Targaryen, the Prince of the City who had commanded them of old.”
“We are done with writing letters.”
“The North was too remote to be of much import in the fight.”
“The Dance of the Dragons is the flowery name bestowed upon the savage internecine struggle for the Iron Throne of Westeros fought between two rival branches of House Targaryen during the years 129 to 131 AC.”
“His mount was blood-red Caraxes, fiercest of all the young dragons in the Dragonpit.”
“The bells began to ring on the tenth day of the third moon of 129 AC, tolling the end of a reign.”
“These happy bastards were said to have been “born of dragonseed,” and in time became known simply as “seeds.”
“House Tyrell would take no part in this struggle.”
“For all the vaunted strength of its walls, King’s Landing fell in less than a day.”
“This is a night for song and sin and drink, for come the morrow, the virtuous and the vile burn together.”
“How many came to see the crowning remains a matter of dispute.”
“This we do know: Cregan Stark and Jacaerys Velaryon reached an accord, and signed and sealed the agreement that Grand Maester Munkun calls “the Pact of Ice and Fire” in his True Telling.”
“Here I have you to myself, day and night,when we go back, I shall be fortunate to snatch an hour with you, for every man in Westeros will want a piece of you."
“I have the dragon’s bastard in me.”
