The Wars to Come Quotes

Lord Varys: You have your father's instincts for politics and you have compassion.

Tyrion Lannister: Compassion. Yes. I killed my lover with my bare hands and I shot my own father with a crossbow.

Lord Varys: I never said you were perfect.

Tyrion Lannister: What is it that you want exactly?

Lord Varys: Peace. Prosperity. A land where the powerful do not prey on the powerless.

Tyrion Lannister: Where the castles are made of gingerbread and the moats are filled with blackberry wine. The powerful have always preyed on the powerless, that's how they became powerful in the first place.

Lord Varys: Perhaps. And perhaps we've grown so used to horror we assume there's no other way.

Lord Varys: The Seven Kingdoms need someone stronger than Tommen but gentler than Stannis. A monarch who could intimidate the High Lords and inspire the people. A ruler loved by millions, with a powerful army, and the right family name.

Tyrion Lannister: Good luck finding him.

Lord Varys: Who said anything about "him"?

Tyrion Lannister: Do you know what it's like to stuff your shit through one of those air holes?

Lord Varys: No. I only know what it's like to pick up your shit and throw it overboard.

Maggy: Three questions you get. You won't like the answers.

Young Cersei Lannister: I've been promised to the prince. When will we marry?

Maggy: You will never wed the prince. You will wed the king.

Young Cersei Lannister: But I will be queen?

Maggy: Oh, yes. You'll be queen... For a time. Then comes another, younger, more beautiful, to cast you down and take all you hold dear.

Young Cersei Lannister: Will the king and I have children.

Maggy: No. The king will have 20 children, and you will have three.

Young Cersei Lannister: That doesn't make sense.

Maggy: Gold will be their crowns. Gold their shrouds.

[Maggy starts laughing maniacally]

Melara Hetherspoon: Come on, we have to go... we have to go. Cersei!

Lord Varys: You have a choice, my friend. You can stay here at Illyrio's palace and drink yourself to death or you can ride with me to Meereen, meet Daenerys Targaryen and decide if the world is worth fighting for

Tyrion Lannister: Can I drink myself to death on the road to Meereen?

Mance Rayder: [about his execution] How will they do it? Beheading? Hanging?

Jon Snow: They'll burn you alive.

[pause]

Mance Rayder: Bad way to go... I'll be honest with you. I don't want to die. And burned to death? I don't want people to remember me like that, scorched and screaming. But it's better than betraying everything I believe.

Tyrion Lannister: I still don't see why I had to stay in this fucking crate once we set sail.

Lord Varys: I saved your life. If they catch you, they catch me. I cannot say I feel overly guilty about leaving you in that fucking crate.

Lord Varys: You already drank yourself across the Narrow Sea.

Tyrion Lannister: In a box. Why stop now?

Lord Varys: Because we are talking about the future of our country.

Tyrion Lannister: [takes a sip of wine] The future... is shit. Just like the past.

[Tyrion vomits]

[Lord Royce and Littlefinger watch the hapless Robin Arryn training]

Yohn Royce: My sons had swords in their hands by the time they could walk; this one...

Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Lord Arryn will never be a great warrior...

Yohn Royce: Great warrior? He swings a sword like a girl with palsy.

Young Cersei Lannister: I know you're a witch and you can see the future. Tell me mine.

Maggy: Everyone wants to know their future... until they know their future.

[first lines]

Melara Hetherspoon: [as her friend leads her through the woods] We shouldn't be out here alone.

Young Cersei Lannister: Why not?

Melara Hetherspoon: If your father...

Young Cersei Lannister: He'll never know we're gone.

Melara Hetherspoon: But if he finds out...

Young Cersei Lannister: [turns around and smiles] You don't need to be afraid of my father.

Melara Hetherspoon: [they reached an old hut] Are you sure?

Young Cersei Lannister: Yes.

Melara Hetherspoon: We shouldn't go in.

Young Cersei Lannister: Of course we should.

Margaery Tyrell: [pouts as she walks in on her brother on bed with his male lover] We're late for dinner as it is.

Loras Tyrell: You're very respectful.

Margaery Tyrell: I'm very hungry.

[closes door, casually eats fruit, then bothers to address the newcomer:]

Margaery Tyrell: What's your name?

Olyvar: Olyvar, my lady.

Margaery Tyrell: I'm afraid my brother is keeping the king waiting... Olyvar.

Olyvar: [kisses his paramour one last time, then acknowledges:] My lady.

Margaery Tyrell: [regards his naked body in a bemused way as he walks towards door, opens it and leaves, then looks at her brother:] Perhaps you might consider being a bit discreet?

Loras Tyrell: Why? They all know about me anyway. Everybody knows everything about everyone. What's the point of trying to keep a secret in a place like this?

Margaery Tyrell: In any event, you shouldn't keep your intended waiting.

Loras Tyrell: My intended? Please! Tywin's dead. That means no one can force Cercei to marry me.

Margaery Tyrell: Lucky you.

Loras Tyrell: Unlucky you.

Margaery Tyrell: You think I want that woman to marry my brother?

Loras Tyrell: If she doesn't marry me, she doesn't go to Highgarden. Which means she stays in King's Landing. Which means you're trapped here with Cercei Lannister as your mother by law.

Margaery Tyrell: Perhaps.

Loras Tyrell: Perhaps?

Margaery Tyrell: Perhaps.

Hizdahr zo Loraq: [after Queen Daenerys distances herself from being a politician] Forgive me. You're right, of course. Still... it's easier to rule happy subjects than angry ones.

Daenerys Targaryen: I don't expect the Wise Masters of Yunkai to be happy. Slavery made them rich. I ended slavery.

Hizdahr zo Loraq: They do not ask for the return of slavery. They ask for the reopening of the fighting pits.

Daenerys Targaryen: The fighting pits? Where slaves fought slaves to the death?

Hizdahr zo Loraq: In the new world that you've brought to us, free men would fight free men. The pit fighters you liberated plead for this opportunity. Bring some here and ask them yourself.

Daenerys Targaryen: [adamant] No fighting pits.

Hizdahr zo Loraq: Opening them would show the people of Yunkai and Meereen that you respect their traditions.

Daenerys Targaryen: I do not respect the tradition of human cockfighting.

Hizdahr zo Loraq: If you could...

Daenerys Targaryen: [angrily] How many times must I say no before you understand?

Daario Naharis: You're the Queen. Everyone's too afraid to speak the truth. Everyone but me. You've made thousands of enemies all across the world. As soon as they see weakness, they'll attack. Show your strength... here, now.

Daenerys Targaryen: That's why I have the Unsullied patrol the streets.

Daario Naharis: [derisive scoff] Anyone with a chest full of gold can buy an army of Unsullied. You're not the Mother of Unsullied. You're the Mother of Dragons.

Daenerys Targaryen: [looks down, shakes her head] I don't want another child's bones dropped at my feet. No one's seen Drogon in weeks. For all I know he's flown halfway across the world.

[sadly shakes her head]

Daenerys Targaryen: I can't control them anymore.

Daario Naharis: A Dragon Queen with no dragons... is not a Queen.

Jon Snow: [as the elevator goes up] Are you cold, my lady?

Melisandre: Never. The Lord's fire lives within me, Jon Snow. Feel.

[takes his hand and holds it against his cheek]

Melisandre: Are you a virgin?

Jon Snow: No.

Melisandre: Good.

[enigmatic smile]