‘Game Of Thrones’: The 12 Best Quotes From The Season 8 Premiere

Family reunions, awkward first meetings and exhilarating dragon rides. The premiere episode of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones provided fans with the above and much more.

Just as it has been for the past seven seasons, the HBO blockbuster’s newest episode, entitled “Winterfell,” was also filled with—SPOILERS AHEAD—confrontational drama, one gruesome death, and most of all, many memorable lines, with a few already turned into memes.

From the much-anticipated reunion chatter between Arya Stark and Jon Snow, to the frosty repartees between Sansa Stark, and the likes of Daenerys Targaryen and Tyrion Lannister, here are 12 of the most quotable quotes from the Games of Thrones Season 8 premiere.

Quotable Quotes from 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 Episode 1

1. "Whatever they want."

-Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen, to Sansa Stark, when the Lady of Winterfell sarcastically asks what exactly do dragons eat.

2. “It had its moments.”

-Sansa Stark, when ex-husband Tyrion Lannister refers to Joffrey’s wedding, in which the cruel young king was poisoned, as “a miserable affair.”

3. “Once or twice.”

-Arya Stark, when Jon Snow asks whether the Faceless Assassin has ever used Needle, the sword he gave her.

4. “You want a whore? Buy one. You want a queen, earn her.”

-Cersei to Euron Greyjoy, after he insists on being duly rewarded.

5. “That boy, Eddie (the ginger). He came back with his face burnt off. He’s got no eyelids now."

-One of Bronn’s brothel companions to the other ladies of the night, referring to the Lannister soldier, played by red-haired singer Ed Sheeran in Season 7 Episode 1, who apparently got burnt by dragon fire during the loot train attack in Episode 4 of the same season.

6. “I wanted those elephants.”

-Cersei to Euron Greyjoy later in her private quarters, still upset that the Golden Company arrived in Westeros without their large mammalian companions.

7. “What is dead may never die… but kill the bastards anyway.”

-Yara Greyjoy to her brother, Theon, after he expresses his wish to go to Winterfell, and help the Starks fight against the army of the dead.

8. “Nothing lasts.”

-Varys, reminding Tyrion and Ser Davos Seaworth of the “unpleasant truth”—that well-meaning couplings (such as that of Jon Snow and Daenerys) rarely last, or end well, in the world they live in.

9. “Then I’ve enjoyed your company, Jon Snow.”

-Daenerys to the ex-King in the North when he voices his concern about the possibility of being thrown off by her dragon Rhaegal in mid-flight.

10. “You don’t know any other rich girls.”

-Arya Stark to Gendry, when he claims he always knew she was “just another rich girl.”

11. “No, she’s much prettier.”

-Sansa Stark to Jon Snow, after he asserts that Daenerys is not like her father, the Mad King.

12. “I've always have blue eyes!”

-Tormund, after Lord Commander Eddison Tollett warns his Night's Watch comrades that the free folk leader “got blue eyes,” after they ran into each other in Last Hearth, the wight-wrecked home of House Umber.

Games of Thrones Season 8 continues on Sundays on HBO till May 19—with a special two-hour documentary, Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, on May 26.

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