CERSEI: I'll tell you a story.
You know the one about the mother lion and her little cub.
She loved him very much,
but there were other things lived in the woods.
Evil things.
TOMMEN: Like what?
CERSEI: Like stags,
and wolves.
Little cub was frightened.
His mother said, "You are a lion, my son. you mustn't be afraid,"
JOFFREY: No.
CERSEI: "for one day all the beasts will bow to you."
"You will be king."
Joffrey is king.
Bend the knee and swear loyalty to my son.
Then whom can we trust?
TYWIN: Ourselves, alone.
JOFFREY: So you agree.
The Starks are enemies.
CERSEI: Everyone who isn't us is an enemy.
EDDARD: I was also trained to kill my enemies, your Grace.
CERSEI: As was I.
You never love anything in the world the way you love your first child.
Doesn't matter what they do.
My son, this is madness.
Joffrey has always been difficult.
He doesn't listen to me!
And what he did, it shocked me.
The more people you love, the weaker you are.
You'll do things you for them that you know you shouldn't do.
You’ll act the fool to make them happy, to keep them safe.
Love no one but your children. On that front, a mother has no choice.
SANSA: Shouldn't I love Joffrey, your grace?
Robert: Don't you get tired?
CERSEI: Every day.
ROBERT: How long can hate hold a thing together?
CERSEI: I took you for a king!
ROBERT: Quiet, woman.
CERSEI: Well, 17 years is quite a long time.
EDDARD: Has he done this before?
CERSEI: Jaime would have killed him.
My brother's worth a thousand of your friend.
JAIME: The things I do for love.
EDDARD: Your brother?
Or your lover?
JAIME: We're the only ones who matter, the only ones in this world.
Cersei?
And everything they’ve taken from us, we’re going to take back and more.
Odd little man.
CERSEI: I've grown rather fond of him.
He's quite talented, you know.
Do everything you can, come to me for anything you need.
You're a clever man,
but you're not half as clever as you think you are.
TYWIN: I don't distrust you because you are a woman.
I distrust you because you're not as smart as you think you are.
TYRION: Still makes me more clever than you.
CERSEI: The Lannister legacy is the only thing that matters.
Father?
What does Tyrion deserve, for lighting that future on fire?
Jaime: There's really nothing you wouldn't do, is there?
CERSEI: For my family, no, nothing.
I would do things for my family you couldn't imagine.
JAIME: Tyrion is your family.
CERSEI: You've always pitied him.
Our poor little brother.
TYRION: I am your family.
CERSEI: Take him!
What good is power?
Power, is power.
If you cannot protect the ones you love?
OBERYN: We can avenge them.
TYRION: Every time we deal with an enemy,
HIGH SPARROW: How may I serve?
TYRION: We create two more.
CERSEI: Then I suppose it will go on for quite a long time.
MAGGIE: You'll be queen.
For a time.
Then comes another,
younger, more beautiful.
CERSEI: ...is ever anything I can do for you.
Our baby boy set to marry that smirking whore from Highgarden!
MARGAERY: You're very sweet.
Lies come easily to you.
Tommen!
But decency, concern.
You're not very good at those, I'm afraid.
JAIME: You're a hateful woman.
The things we do for love.
Why have the gods made me love a hateful woman?
HIGH SPARROW: The Crown and the Faith
are the twin pillars of the world.
Do you know who told me that?
CERSEI: Move.
I'm Queen Regent.
I am Queen Regent.
I am the Queen.
I am the Queen!
Have you lost your mind?
Sometimes I wonder,
SEPTA UNELLA: Confess.
CERSEI: is this the price
for what we've done,
My son...
for our sins.
HIGH SPARROW: A sinner comes before you.
Cersei of House Lannister.
She has confessed her sin.
SEPTA UNELLA: Shame.
Shame.
QYBURN: He has sworn that he will not speak
until all His Grace's enemies are dead
and evil has been driven from the realm.
LANCEL: Order your man to step aside or there will be violence.
CERSEI: I choose violence.
When you play the game of thrones,
you win or you die.
There is no middle ground.
Seize this traitor.
Seize him.
TYRION: Sooner or later,
Cersei always gets what she wants.
CERSEI: Show them what Lannisters are,
what we do to our enemies.
Get,
out.
Out, all of you out.
Get out!
MARGAERY: Get out, you hateful bitch!
CERSEI: A Lannister always pays her debts.
OLENNA: We mothers
do what we can to keep our sons from the grave.
But they do seem to yearn for it.
CERSEI: I will burn our house to the ground before I let that happen!
We'll rain fire down on them from above.
I drink because it feels good.
Shame.
I fuck my brother because it feels good to feel him inside.
Shame.
I killed your High Sparrow
and all his little sparrows,
Shame.
because it felt good to watch them burn.
THE MAD KING: Burn them all!
JAIME: I drove my sword into his back.
QYBURN: Long may she reign!
(Long may she reign!)