Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.