“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”
“Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.”
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
“He was the blood of the dragon, but now his fire has gone out. He was Aemon Targaryen. And now his watch is ended.”