An empty throne provokes more trouble than a weak king.
A king must decide who he can trust, and who he must discard.
A king must be a king on his own terms. He cannot be his father. He can only be himself.
You will see me again. If I die, I will haunt you to the end of your days.[Aethelflaed: But if I do not see you again…]
You have plenty of insults for a man who can no longer wield a sword.[to Haesten]
We carry our losses, but we journey onward.
To kill you would be to kill part of myself! We were bound as one! We were the same.[to Brida]
To fight, men need a lord who can lead them into battle without fear.
The future will come. Wait for it.[to Edward]
That’s the curse of life, to think of what might have been.
Sometimes I think that my fate is to wander and to never arrive.
No king has ever ruled bloodlessly. It is not in their nature.
