“-No more, and no less”
“So power is a mummer’s trick?”
“A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill.”

“Queen you shall be … until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.”

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
— A Clash of Kings

Daenerys Targaryen… How do I begin to explain Daenerys Targaryen?

The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother of dragons.