therealncrth: ♛ || ❛ I know that she spent her childhood in exile , impoverished , living on dreams
therealncrth: ♛ || ❛ 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 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 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 sandalled feet. ❜ —— ( , A Dance With Dragons ) -- source link