
I’d rather face a thousand swords than be shut up inside with this flock of frightened hens.
You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn’t shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you and you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don’t die so far from the sea.
- What do you think they’ll say when they hear about you and me?
- Nothing happened between you and me.

The Targaryens wed brother and sister for hundreds of years, I know. It’s what Jaime and I would say to each other in our moments of doubt. It’s what I told Ned Stark when he was stupid enough to confront me. Half the Targaryens went mad, didn’t they?