A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

All that Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known.

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“This will be uglier than a whore’s ass,”