Game of Thrones, Season 8

[Jon Snow comes to see Tyrion after Daenerys has him arrested for treason]

Tyrion Lannister:
Did you bring any wine?

Jon Snow:
No.

Tyrion Lannister:
Well, thank you for coming to see me. Our Queen doesn't keep prisoners for long. I suppose there's a crude kind of justice: I betrayed my closest friend and watched him burn. Now Varys's ashes can tell my ashes "See? I told you so". It just occurred to me, I'm talking to the only man alive who knows where I'm going. So is there life after death?

Jon Snow:
Not that I've seen.

Tyrion Lannister:
I should be thankful. Oblivion is the best I can hope for. I strangled my lover. I shot my own father with a crossbow. I betrayed my Queen.

Jon Snow:
You didn't-

Tyrion Lannister:
I did...and I'd do it again, now that I've seen what I've seen. I chose my fate. The people of King's Landing didn't.

Jon Snow:
I can't justify what happened. I won't try...but the war is over now.

Tyrion Lannister:
Is it? When you heard her talking to her soldiers, did she sound like someone who's done fighting? She liberated the people of Slaver's Bay, she liberated the people of King's Landing and she'll go on liberating until the people of the world are free...and she rules them all!

Jon Snow:
And you've been by her side, counselling her, until today!

Tyrion Lannister:
Until today. Varys was right. I was wrong. It was vanity to think I could guide her. Our Queen's nature is fire and blood.

Jon Snow:
You think our House words are stamped on our bodies when we're born and that's who we are?! Then I'd be fire and blood too! She's not her father, no more than you're Tywin Lannister!

Tyrion Lannister:
My father was an evil man. My sister was an evil woman. Pile up all the bodies of all the people they ever killed; there still won't be as many as our beautiful Queen slaughtered in a single day!

Jon Snow:
Cersei left her no choice-

Tyrion Lannister:
The moment the gates fell, the battle was over!

Jon Snow:
She saw her friend beheaded! She saw her dragon shot out of the sky!

Tyrion Lannister:
And she burned down an entire city for it!

Jon Snow:
Aye, it's easy to judge when you're standing far from the battlefield!

Tyrion Lannister:
Would you have done it?

Jon Snow:
What?

Tyrion Lannister:
You've been up there, on a dragon's back. You've had that kind of power. Would you have burned the city down?

Jon Snow:
I don't know.

Tyrion Lannister:
Oh, yes you do! You won't say because you don't want to betray her, but you know.

Jon Snow:
What does it matter what I'd do?

Tyrion Lannister:
It matters more than anything. When she murdered the slavers of Astapor, I'm sure no one but the slavers complained. After all, they were evil men. When she crucified hundreds of Meereenese nobles, who could argue? They were evil men. The Dothraki khals she burned alive? They would have done worse to her. Everywhere she goes, evil men die and we cheer her for it. And she grows more powerful and more sure that she is good and right. She believes her destiny is to build a better world, for everyone. If you believed that, truly believed it, wouldn't you kill everyone who stood between you and paradise? [unable to answer, Jon sinks into a nearby chair] I know you love her. I love her too, though not as successfully as you. But I believed in her, with all my heart. Love is more powerful than reason, we all know that. Look at my brother.

Jon Snow:
"Love is the death of duty."

Tyrion Lannister:
You just came up with that?

Jon Snow:
Maester Aemon said it, a long time ago.

Tyrion Lannister:
Sometimes, duty is the death of love. You are the shield that guards the realms of men, and you've always tried to do the right thing, no matter the cost. You've tried to protect people. Who is the greatest threat to the people now? It's a terrible thing I'm asking. It's also the right thing. Do you think I'm the last man she'll execute? Who's more dangerous than the rightful heir to the Iron Throne?

Jon Snow:
That's her decision. She is the Queen. I'm sorry it came to this. [Jon moves to leave]

Tyrion Lannister:
And your sisters? Do you see them bending the knee?

Jon Snow:
My sisters will be loyal to the throne.

Tyrion Lannister:
Why do you think Sansa told me the truth about you?! Because she doesn't want Dany to be Queen-!

Jon Snow:
She doesn't get to choose!

Tyrion Lannister:
No! But you do. And you have to choose now.