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Come while this faint heart still has the wrong kind of courage.
“You will have a candle in hand. A flame guttering in the wind. You will have to protect it. For a time, you may have to take it underground. And then you will have to decide how to use it. Will you make a conflagration, and build in the ashes? Will you light a lantern and climb, hoping that your light will be enough for those below? Or will you choose to light the way for someone else?”
After centuries of dragonborn oppression, after only ten years’ freedom from it, the people chose dragonlords. All it took was a bit of a performance and some loaves of bread.
When a government ceases to protect its people, it becomes necessary to overthrow it.”
“You and me, we take what we can get.”
“I just wanted it to be in writing, somewhere. I wanted it to be in writing that it was you. For me. It’s always been you.”
But whatever may be said about my heart, I’m done apologizing for following my conscience.
“Nuts for her. Head over heels, would die to save her, in love with her. It’s completely unrequited, she and I both know it, and yet here I am hopelessly, madly in love with Antigone sur freaking Aela.”
“Some of the bravest women in our lives have been peasant women, Annie. They’re why we’re here. Even if they go unsung.”
I once worried that reading about heroes of the old Houses made me unsuited to the life of one. Now I know it does. In this corner of the earth that is mine, I will read poetry and grow old in love. Let them sing of others.
