Kill me, and be cursed. You are no king of mine.

The Lord of Winterfell would always be a Stark

A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor of this house or that house, neither for gold nor glory nor a woman's love, but for the realm, and all the people in it. A man of the Night's Watch takes no wife and fathers no sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. And you are the only sons we shall ever know.

I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.