“Which king?”“All of them. The true and the false alike. If they would claim the realm, let them defend it.”

“Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.”

“A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.”

“And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”

“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”

“I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall ever find him there to disturb his rest.” He looked at Jaime defiantly. “I will defend King Tommen with all my strength, I swear it. I will give my life for his if need be. But I will never betray Renly, by word or deed. He was the king that should have been. He was the best of them.”

“Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.”