Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.