she spun herself a crown of gold,

thrones of bones and citadels

to the deaf stars she screamed:

make me queen or i’ll make you bleed

the conquering dragon queen with fire in her eyes and blood on her hands; the gentle heart who would be not only feared but respected, loved

daenerys stormborn of the house targaryen, the first of her name, the unburnt, queen of meereen, queen of the andals and the rhoynar and the first men, khaleesi of the great grass sea, breaker of chains, and mother of dragons

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"i know that she spent her childhood in exile, impoverished, living on dreams and schemes, running from one city to the next, always fearful, never safe, friendless but for a brother who was by all accounts half mad... a brother who sold her maidenhood to the dothraki for the promise of an army. i know that somewhere out upon the grass her dragons hatched, and so did she. i know she is proud. how not? what else was left her but pride? i know she is strong. how not? the dothraki despise weakness. if daenerys had been weak, she would have perished with viserys. i know she is fierce. astapor, yunkai, and meereen are proof enough of that. she has crossed the grasslands and the red waste, survived assassins and conspiracies and fell sorceries, grieved for a brother and a husband and a son, trod the cities of the slavers to dust beneath her dainty sandaled feet."

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i will do what queens do. i will rule ♡ the next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands ♡ yes, all men must die, but we are not men ♡ i am not your little princess ♡ if i look back i am lost ♡ i will take what is mine with fire and blood ♡ i do not have a gentle heart ♡ a dragon is not a slave ♡ i have never been nothing. i am the blood of the dragon ♡ i am the dragon's daughter, and i swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming ♡ the fire is mine ♡ fire cannot kill a dragon ♡ woman? is that meant to insult me? i would return the slap if i took you for a man ♡ a mother does not flee without her children ♡ i am no ordinary woman. my dreams come true ♡

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