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