When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.