Piano Strings

Elia Martell trying to get the people around her to be rational political actors but everyone's too busy being grief stricken or obsessed with prophecy or crazy and racist or transporting a minor across state lines

Ormund implying that Gwayne is queer to insult him and Gwayne later saving his life because he noticed how attractive Arrion Baratheon was

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.