" Nothing but this: I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.” He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. “I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. You leave me no choice but to appeal to the gods. I demand trial by battle. "

― George R.R. Martin , A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3, Part 2 of 2)