power is power.

“By God, England will not fall while I am Queen.”

What gods are those? The trees your husband prayed to? Where were the trees when his head was getting chopped off? If your gods are real, and if they’re just, why is the world so full of injustice?

When dead men and worse come hunting … you think it matters who sits on the iron throne?- Game of Thrones (2011-)

In Dorne, she walked among vipers and none would bite her. In King’s Landing, she found herself surrounded by lions.

mother of dragons

Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible, and red.

Your mother’s dead. Before long I’ll be dead, and you and your brother and your sister and all of her children, all of us dead, all of us rotting underground. It’s the family name that lives on. It’s all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honour… but family. You understand? 

Ned Stark’s daughter will speak for them. She’s the best they could ask for.

a sweet poison, yes- but it will kill you all the same.

When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die.