“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
“There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.”
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.”
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
“If I look back I am lost.”
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
“Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”
“Every flight begins with a fall.”
“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.”
“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”
“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
“What do we say to the Lord of Death?"
"Not today.”
“The things I do for love.”
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
“Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
“You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister."
"Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure."
"I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said.
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