Daenerys Targaryen Quotes

I was born at Dragonstone. Not that I can remember it. We fled before Robert's assassins could find us. Robert was your father's best friend, no? I wonder if your father knew his best friend sent assassins to murder a baby girl in her crib. Not that it matters now, of course. I spent my life in foreign lands. So many men have tried to kill me, I don't remember all their names. I have been sold like a broodmare. I've been chained and betrayed, raped and defiled. Do you know what kept me standing, through all those years in exile? Faith. Not in any god, not in myths and legends. In myself. In Daenerys Targaryen. The world hadn't seen a dragon in centuries, until my children were born. The Dothraki hadn't crossed the sea, any sea. They did for me. I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and I will.

Daenerys Targaryen: Do not touch me. I am Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen.
Daenerys Targaryen: The First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khalisee of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons.
Khal Moro: You are nobody, the millionth of your name, Queen of Nothing, slave of Khal Moro. Tonight I will lie with you, and if the Great Stallion is kind, you will give me a son. Do you understand?
Daenerys Targaryen: I will not lie with you. And I will bear no children, for you, or anyone else. Not until the sun rises in the west, and sets in the east.

Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.
Hizdahr zo Loraq: I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking about the necessary conditions for greatness.
Daenerys Targaryen: That is greatness?
Hizdahr zo Loraq: That is a vital part of the great city of Meereen, which existed long before you or I and will remain standing long after we have returned to the dirt.
Tyrion Lannister: My father would have liked you.

And here, now, what what great matters do the Great Khals discuss? Which little villages you'll raid, how many girls you'll get to fuck, how many horses you'll demand in tribute. You are small men. None of you are fit to lead the Dothraki. But I am. So I will.

Daenerys Targaryen: Every Khal who ever lived chose three bloodriders to fight beside him and guard his way, But I am not a Khal. I will not choose three blood riders. I choose you all.
Daenerys Targaryen: I will ask more of you than any Khal has ever asked of his khalasar! Will you ride the wooden horses across the black salt sea?
Daenerys Targaryen: Will you kill my enemies in their iron suits and tear down their stone houses?
Daenerys Targaryen: Will you give me the Seven Kingdoms, the gift Khal Drogo promised me before the Mother of Mountains?
Daenerys Targaryen: Are you with me, now and always?

My reign has just begun.

Tyrion Lannister: You have your armies, you have your ships, you have your dragons. Everything you've ever wanted since you were old enough to want anything, it's all yours for the taking. Are you afraid?
Tyrion Lannister: Good. You're in the great game now. And the great game's terrifying. The only people who aren't afraid of failure are madmen like your father.
Daenerys Targaryen: Do you know what frightens me? I said farewell to a man who loves me. A man I thought I cared for. And I felt nothing. Just impatient to get on with it.
Tyrion Lannister: He wasn't the first to love you and he won't be the last.
Daenerys Targaryen: Well, you have completely failed to console me.
Tyrion Lannister: For what it's worth, I've been a cynic for as long as I can remember. Everyone's always asking me to believe in things. Family, gods, kings, myself. It was often tempting until I saw where belief got people. so I said, "no, thank you," to belief. And yet, here I am. I believe in you. It's embarrassing, really. I'd swear you my sword, but I don't actually own a sword.
Daenerys Targaryen: It's your counsel I need.
Tyrion Lannister: It's yours. Now and always.

Tyrion Lannister, I name you Hand of the Queen.

Shall we begin?

Tyrion Lannister: If we turn the dragons loose, tens of thousands will die in the firestorms.
Ellaria Sand: It's called war. If you don't have the stomach for it, scurry back into hiding.
Tyrion Lannister: I know how you wage war. We DON'T poison little girls here. Myrcella was innocent.
Ellaria Sand: She was a Lannister. There are no innocent Lannisters. My greatest regret is that Oberyn died fighting for you.
Daenerys Targaryen: That's enough! Lord Tyrion is Hand of the Queen, you will treat him with respect. I am not here to be Queen of the Ashes.
Olenna Tyrell: That's very nice to hear. Of course, I can't remember a queen who was better loved than my granddaughter. The common people loved her, the Nobles loved her, and what is left of her now? Ashes. Commoners, Nobles, they're all just children, really. They won't obey you unless they fear you.
Daenerys Targaryen: I'm grateful to you, Lady Olenna, for your counsel. I'm grateful to all of you, but you have chosen to follow me. I will not attack King's Landing. WE will not attack King's Landing.

Daenerys Targaryen: I swear this: If you ever betray me, I'll burn you alive.
Lord Varys: I would expect nothing less from the Mother of Dragons.

Daenerys Targaryen: I will fight for you. I will fight for the North. When you bend the knee.
Jon Snow: My people... won't accept a southern ruler. Not after everything they've suffered.
Daenerys Targaryen: They will if their king does. They chose you to lead them. They chose you to protect them. Isn't their survival more important than your pride?

Jon Snow: If I don't return, at least you won't have to deal with the King in the North anymore.
Daenerys Targaryen: I've grown used to him.

Jon Snow: Your family hasn't seen its end. You're still here.
Daenerys Targaryen: I can't have children.
Jon Snow: Who told you that?
Daenerys Targaryen: The witch who murdered my husband.
Jon Snow: Has it occurred to you she might not have been a reliable source of information?

Sansa Stark: What do dragons eat, anyway?
Daenerys Targaryen: Whatever they want.

Daenerys Targaryen: He never should have trusted Cersei.
Sansa Stark: You never should have either.
Daenerys Targaryen: I thought he knew his sister.
Sansa Stark: Families are complicated.

Jon Snow: The Night King is coming.
Daenerys Targaryen: The dead are already here.

We'll rip her out root and stem.

Daenerys Targaryen: You freed your brother.
Tyrion Lannister: I freed my brother and you slaughtered a city.

Jorah Mormont: King Joffrey Baratheon is dead. Murdered at his own wedding.
Barristan Selmy: And we have taken the Meereenese navy, Your Grace.
Daario Naharis: The Second Sons took the Meereenese navy.
Daenerys Targaryen: Who told you to take the navy?
Daario Naharis: No one.
Daenerys Targaryen: So why did you do it?
Daario Naharis: I heard you liked ships.
Daenerys Targaryen: How many ships?
Barristan Selmy: 93, Your Grace.
Daenerys Targaryen: How many men can they carry?
Barristan Selmy: 9,300, not counting sailors.
Daenerys Targaryen: Would that be enough to take King's Landing?
Jorah Mormont: The Lannisters have more.

Ser Jorah Mormont: Khaleesi, a dragon is worth more than any army. Aegon Targaryen proved that.
Daenerys Targaryen: You're both here to advise me. I value your advice, but if you ever question me in front of strangers again, you'll be advising someone else. Is that understood?

Unsullied! Slay the masters, slay the soldiers, slay every man who holds a whip, but harm no child. Strike the chains off every slave you see!

Daenerys Targaryen: What is your name?
Grey Worm: Grey Worm.
Daenerys Targaryen: "Grey Worm."
Missandei: All unsullied boys are given new names when they are cut - Grey Worm, Red Flea, Black Rat - names that remind them of what they are: vermin.
Daenerys Targaryen: From this day forward, you will choose your own names. You will tell your fellow soldiers to do the same. Throw away your slave name; choose the name your parents gave you, or any other. A name that gives you pride.
Grey Worm: "Grey Worm" gives me pride. It is a lucky name. The name this one was born with was cursed. That was the name he had when he was taken as a slave. But Grey Worm is the name this one had the day Daenerys Stormborn set him free.

Barristan Selmy: The Yunkish are a proud people; they will not bend.
Daenerys Targaryen: And what happens to things that don't bend?

A man who fights for gold can't afford to lose to a girl.

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen: Are you sure you don't want a horse?
Daario Naharis: I don't want a horse.
Daenerys Targaryen: Horses are faster than men.
Daario Naharis: Horses are dumber than men.

Daenerys Targaryen: How are the lessons going?
Missandei: Very well, Your Grace.
Grey Worm: Missandei is teacher good, my Queen.

Daenerys Targaryen: I owe you my life, ser.
Barristan Selmy: The honor is mine, my queen.
Daenerys Targaryen: You know this man?
Jorah Mormont: I know him as one of the greatest fighters the Seven Kingdoms has ever seen and as the Lord Commander of Robert Baratheon's Kingsguard.
Barristan Selmy: King Robert is dead. I have been searching for you, Daenerys Stormborn, to ask your forgiveness. I was sworn to protect your family. I failed them. I am Barristan Selmy, Kingsguard to your father. Allow me to join your Queensguard and I will not fail you again.

Daenerys Targaryen: How many more?
Missandei: There are two hundred and twelve supplicants waiting, Your Grace.
Daenerys Targaryen: Two hundred and twelve?
Daenerys Targaryen: Send the next one in.

Missandei: Your Grace.
Missandei: May I bring you something? To help you sleep.
Missandei: Forgive me for disturbing you.
Daenerys Targaryen: Stay with me.
Daenerys Targaryen: Never betray me. Never.

Fennesz: Even if they are safe, who would I be there? What purpose would I serve? With my master, I was a teacher. I had the respect and love of his children.
Daenerys Targaryen: What is it that you want from me?
Fennesz: Your Grace, I ask you to let me sell myself back to Master Mighdal.
Daenerys Targaryen: You want to return to a man who owned you like a goat or a chair?
Fennesz: Please, Your Grace. The young may rejoice in the new world you have built for them, but for those of us too old to change, there is only fear and squalor. I am not alone. There are many outside waiting to beg the same of you.
Daenerys Targaryen: I did not take this city to preside over the injustice I fought to destroy. I took it to bring people freedom. But freedom means making your own choices.

Angry snakes lash out. It makes chopping off their heads that much easier.

Don't want to overfeed them. Perhaps tomorrow.

Daenerys Targaryen: Get him out of my sight.
Jorah Mormont: Khaleesi, please, I just need a moment of your time. I brought you a gift.
Tyrion Lannister: It's true. He has.
Daenerys Targaryen: Who are you?
Tyrion Lannister: I'm the gift. It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Grace. My name is Tyrion Lannister.

Daenerys Targaryen: Get him out of my sight.
Jorah Mormont: Khaleesi, please, I just need a moment of your time. I brought you a gift.
Tyrion Lannister: It's true. He has.
Daenerys Targaryen: Who are you?
Tyrion Lannister: I'm the gift. It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Grace. My name is Tyrion Lannister.

Daenerys Targaryen: So I should welcome you into my service because you murdered members of your own family?
Tyrion Lannister: Into your service? Your grace, we have only just met. It's too soon to know if you deserve my service.