In this world, only winter is certain

Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.