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“A ruler needs a good head and a true heart,” she famously told the king. “A cock is not essential.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“I fed my last husband to my dragon. If you make me take another, I may eat him myself.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla