HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON ONE SENTENCE STARTERS
❛ I’d rather serve as a knight and ride to battle and glory. ❜
❛ We have royal wombs, you and I. The childbed is our battlefield. ❜
❛ I want to fly with you on dragonback, see the great wonders across the Narrow Sea, and eat only cake. ❜
❛ We must either act now or leave it with the gods. ❜
❛ The gods have yet to make a man who lacks the patience for absolute power. ❜
❛ I have only ever defended you! Yet everything I’ve given you, you’ve thrown back in my face. ❜
❛ To elude a storm, you can either sail into it, or around it. But you must never await its coming. ❜
❛ We should be free to speak our minds to one another. ❜
❛ I imagine even dragons get lonely. ❜
❛ I understand the order of things. I’m not sure you do. ❜
❛ If you mean to elicit some anger from me, you should know that you’re failing. ❜
❛ Men would sooner put the realm to the torch than see a woman ascend the Iron Throne. ❜
❛ I’m right here, the object of your ire. ❜
❛ Do it. And be done with all this bother. ❜
❛ Proud men don’t like having to look up. ❜
❛ Our worth is not given. It must be made. ❜
❛ None of it needs be this way in truth. ❜
❛ The boars squeal like children when they’re being slaughtered. I find it discomforting. ❜
❛ Even I do not exist above tradition and duty! ❜
❛ How lucky you are to have a say in your own life. ❜
❛ All that I have, I owe to you. ❜
❛ Well, if you truly believe that, my dear… then you possess a generous spirit. ❜
❛ I was trying to help you. Will you not be helped? Why must every effort on your behalf be resisted - as if to the death? ❜
❛ You wear a crown. Do you also call yourself “King”? ❜
❛ How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs. ❜
❛ Though I do suppose you seem changed by your adventures. More mature, perhaps. ❜
❛ Marriage is only a political arrangement. Once you are wed, you can do as you like. ❜
❛ You can not live your life in fear, or you will forsake the best parts of it. ❜
❛ I have no desire to live in fear. Only solitude. ❜
❛ This is a vile accusation. ❜
❛ I have spent a lifetime defending you. But your heart is even blacker than I thought. ❜
❛ You said I could have anything. I want [name]. I’ll take her as she is. ❜
❛ When one is never invited to speak, one learns instead to observe. ❜
❛ It’s long past time our houses were united in blood. ❜
❛ Let us leave it all behind and see the world together… where we’ll be nameless, and free… free to go where we like, to love as we like. ❜
❛ What will they say of me when the histories are written? ❜
❛ I deserve some say in the affairs of my own family. ❜
❛ Your obsession with those beasts goes beyond understanding. ❜
❛ The consequences of an allegation like the one you toy at would be dire. ❜
❛ Have I lost my sanity? Do my senses lead me astray? Or is everyone else asleep, dreaming the same woolly dream? ❜
❛ You have your honor and I have mine. ❜
❛ Dark rumors are hunting us. They nip at our heels. ❜
❛ The wise sailor flees the storm as it gathers. ❜
❛ How sweetly the fox speaks when it’s been cornered by the hounds. ❜
❛ You may do as you wish, when I am cold in my grave. ❜
❛ You may know what is the right thing to be done, but love stays the hand. ❜
❛ No matter how fat the leech grows, it always wants for another meal. ❜
❛ Mayhaps the gods have scorned us for our insatiable pride. ❜
❛ What is this brief mortal life if not the pursuit of legacy? ❜
❛ Each of us is capable of depravity. And more than you would believe. ❜
❛ I will have the truth of what happened. ❜
❛ This interminable infighting must cease! All of you! We are family! ❜
❛ There is a debt to be paid. ❜
❛ What have I done but what was expected of me? ❜
❛ Exhausting, wasn’t it? Hiding beneath the cloak of your own righteousness. But now they see you as you are. ❜
❛ We play an ugly game. And now, for the first time, I see that you have the determination to win it. ❜
❛ You and I are made of fire. We have always been meant to burn together. ❜
❛ They will fear what else we might be capable of. ❜
❛ And while I should like your support, I do not need it. ❜
❛ I would say it’s nice to be home, but I scarcely recognize it. ❜
❛ I’ve done everything you’ve asked me to, and I try so hard, but it will never be enough for you. ❜
❛ Hold your nerve. What we do, we do for the good of the realm. ❜
❛ I must confess a certain uneasiness now this is at hand. ❜
❛ A generous offer. Or a desperate one. ❜
❛ But tonight I wish you to see me as I am. ❜
❛ Let us no longer hold ill feelings in our hearts. ❜
❛ It is you. You are the one. You must do this. ❜
❛ His last words to me and I was the only one to hear it. And now he’s dead. ❜
❛ I recognize no authority but the King’s. And until there is one… I have no place here. ❜
❛ It is our fate, I think, to crave always what is given to another. If one possesses a thing, the other will take it away. ❜
❛ I will do you the considerable courtesy of assuming there is a good reason for the outrage of my treatment here this morning. ❜
❛ You are wiser than I believed you to be. ❜
❛ You desire not to be free, but to make a window in the wall of your prison. ❜
❛ There is no power but what the people allow you to take. ❜
❛ Our hearts were never one. I see that now. ❜
❛ No king has ever lived that hasn’t had to forfeit the lives of a few to protect the many. ❜
❛ Reluctance to murder is not a weakness! ❜
❛ We don’t choose our destiny. It chooses us. ❜
❛ Whatever claim remains to me, you are now its heir. ❜
❛ Naught is to be done but by my command. ❜
❛ Come with me. I’ll show you the true meaning of loyalty. ❜
❛ If you choose treachery, if you swear fealty now only to later turn your cloaks… know that you will die screaming. ❜
❛ Let’s end this mummer’s farce. ❜
❛ I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone. ❜
❛ Dreams didn’t make us kings. Dragons did. ❜
❛ You abandoned me… when I most needed you. ❜
❛ Hope is the fool’s ally. ❜
❛ I will not fight you. I came as a messenger, not a warrior. ❜
