What is this brief, mortal life, if not the pursuit of legacy?[to Rhaenys]
History does not remember blood. It remembers names.
We are the realm’s second sons, Daemon. Our worth is not given. It must be made.
To elude a storm, you can either sail into it, or around it. But you must never await its coming.[to Viserys]
Hope is the fool’s ally.
Heedless ambition has always been a Velaryon weakness.
It was never my brother’s strongest trait.[Daemon Targaryen]What?[Corlys Velaryon]Being King.[Daemon Targaryen]
Alyn, I have nothing to give you now. But my name.[Corlys Velaryon]And yet I count that of more worth than a mountain of gold.[Alyn of Hull]