- Princess Helaena Targaryen: Hand turns loom; spool of green, spool of black. Dragons of flesh weaving dragons of thread.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: Do not mourn me, Mother. It was a fair exchange. I may have lost an eye, but I gained a dragon.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: The crown was yours until those fools at the Great Council plucked it from your head. Is it such a terrible thing for your husband to wish to win it back?
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: Tonight of all nights, let us lay aside this falsehood. It is not justice for your wife that drives you. It is your own ambition. 'Tis desire for the throne. If not for yourself, then for the scions of your house. I gave up the idea of wearing a crown a generation ago. It is you, lord husband, who refuses to abandon this pursuit, even now, at the cost of our children.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: What is this brief mortal life if not the pursuit of legacy?
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: Legacy may be why you live your life, Corlys. I want Driftmark to pass through Laena's line to Baela. To true Velaryon blood. Declare it now, while all are gathered here, and we will say that is how we will honor Laena's memory.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: And disinherit our son?
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: He will be the King Consort. His son will one day sit the Iron Throne.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: You would have me cast an even darker shadow over those little boys than already exists.
- Princess Rhaenys Targaryen: We are alone here, husband. You can speak the plain truth as we both know it. Rhaenyra's children are not of your blood. But Laena's are. They are her legacy.
- Lord Corlys Velaryon: History does not remember blood. It remembers names.
- Queen Alicent Hightower: I disgraced myself. And ensured my husband's favor will forever rest on her.
- Ser Otto Hightower: And yet I've never seen that side of you, my daughter. I even doubted its existence.
- Queen Alicent Hightower: It was an ugly thing. I regret it.
- Ser Otto Hightower: We play an ugly game. And now, for the first time, I see that you have the determination to win it.
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: Vhagar is my mother's dragon.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: Your mother's dead. And Vhagar has a new rider now.
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: She was mine to claim.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: Then you should've claimed her! Maybe your cousins can find you a pig to ride. It would suit you.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: [after fighting off his cousins] Come at me again and I'll feed you to my dragon!
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: You will die screaming in flames just as your father did! Bastards.
- Prince Lucerys 'Luke' Velaryon: [crying] My father's still alive.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: [to Jace] He doesn't know, does he, Lord Strong?
- [Rhaenyra struggles with Alicent]
- Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen: You've gone too far.
- Queen Alicent Hightower: I? What have I done but what was expected of me? Forever upholding the kingdom, the family, the law. While you flout all to do as you please.
- King Viserys I Targaryen: Alicent, let her go!
- Queen Alicent Hightower: Where is duty? Where is sacrifice? It's trampled under your pretty foot again.
- Ser Otto Hightower: Release the blade, Alicent.
- Queen Alicent Hightower: And now you take my son's eye, and to even that, you feel entitled.
- Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen: Exhausting, wasn't it? Hiding beneath the cloak of your own righteousness.
- Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen: [whispers] But now they see you as you are.
- [Alicent cuts Rhaenyra deeply to everyone's horror]
- Prince Aegon Targaryen: [about Helaena] We have nothing in common.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: She is our sister.
- Prince Aegon Targaryen: You marry her, then.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: I would perform my duty, if mother had only betrothed us.
- Prince Aegon Targaryen: If only.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: It would strengthen the family. Keep our Valyrian blood pure.
- Prince Aegon Targaryen: She is an idiot.
- Prince Aemond Targaryen: She is your future queen.
- Prince Aegon Targaryen: We actually do have one thing in common. We both fancy creatures with very long legs.