Rhaenyra Targaryen Quotes

Laenor Velaryon: I hate the gods for making me as they did.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: I do not. You are an honorable man with a good heart. It’s a rare thing.

Laenor Velaryon: I should’ve been there.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: Those should be our house words.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: You do not desert your post when the storm lashes.

Laenor Velaryon: The wise sailor flees the storm as it gathers.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: Dark rumors are hunting us, Laenor. They nip at our heels. Questions about our sons’ parentage. Vile, disgusting insinuations.

Laenor Velaryon: Insinuations, are they?

Rhaenyra Targaryen: They are our sons! Yours and mine. And their true father will not abandon them now to go carousing through the Narrow Sea, waggling his sword and winking at his sailors.

(After Rhaenyra has given a birth…)

Laenor Velaryon: Was it terribly painful? I took a lance through the shoulder once.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: My deepest sympathies.

Laenor Velaryon: I am glad I am not a woman.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: I was never much of a dancer.

Laenor Velaryon: It’s not much different to combat.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: Hm, I shall hope for a different outcome.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: I know this union is not what you would choose.

Laenor Velaryon: I hold nothing against you, cousin.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: No, I… rather… Dare I say it is a matter of taste? I prefer roast duck to goose. I cannot say why.

Laenor Velaryon: It’s, it’s not for a lack of trying. There are those who like goose very well.

Rhaenyra Targaryen: I find it a bit greasy for my taste. I know that whatever agreement being struck up there will not change your appetites, nor will it change mine.

Laenor Velaryon: And what do you propose?

Rhaenyra Targaryen: That we perform our duty to our fathers and to the realm and when it’s done… each of us dines as we see fit.