It runs in the blood.

Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone. The dragons are no more, the giants are dead, the children of the forest forgotten with all their lore. Sad to say, but magic is gone.

“Your uncle is clearly quite drunk, your grace.” “I am. Guilty.”

“We all dream of things we cannot have. Tywin dreamed that his son would be a great knight, that his daughter would be a queen. He dreamed they would be so strong and brave and beautiful that no one would ever laugh at them.” 
”I am a knight,” [Jaime] told her. “and Cersei is a queen.“ 

theongreyjoy:

”..and had never known how to laugh”

tumblrofthrones:

seriously we can’t even pronounce these Valyrian names half the time. Davos deserves a Wall-sized star for starting with that book.