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“Thus did the flower of House Strong, an ancient line of noble warriors boasting descent from the First Men, come to an ignoble end in the ward at Harrenhal. No trueborn Strong was spared, nor any bastard save…oddly…Alys Rivers.”

"He then realizes that he's got blood coming from him. He gradually gets weaker and weaker. By the time he reaches Alys, he's basically prostrate at her feet. And that is a sort of really great start to how that relationship evolves." – Clare Kilner

"He then realizes that he's got blood coming from him. He gradually gets weaker and weaker. By the time he reaches Alys, he's basically prostrate at her feet. And that is a sort of really great start to how that relationship evolves." – Clare Kilner

A little detail I loved in "Beach Reads": When Patricia first finds the Your Turn book, a fly circles it — the way flies circle something rotten or smelly. Odd, because the book looks brand new, pristine, untouched. Then the twist hits. It is rotten. What Patricia saw as a clean, modern copy is actually an ancient spell book in disguise— and it's been that way from the start. The dark magic was already working on her before she even knew what she was holding.

Stop making this about you. It's not about you! I'm sorry, but I am not the reason that you don't have any friends. It's because you're fucking insane. Okay? Your little party? It almost killed everyone. And now you've ruined book club.

HBO's House of the Dragon (United States, 2022) Season Three, Episode One. / Season Two, Episode Eight

Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower