Chaos is a Ladder

Varys: I did what I did for the good of the realm. Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It’s the thousand blades of Aegon’s enemies- a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it’s a lie. Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all. Baelish: Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, given a chance to