Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.

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.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.