"My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

"Men with comfortable seats were inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were mor inclined to shout."

"You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fire. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire everytime."

"One day all men must die, but it serves no good to dwell on death. I prefer to take each day as it goes."

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

"Every battle is a gamble. The man who does nothing also takes a risk."


George R. R. Martin

A Reader Lives A Thousand Lives

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. The singers of the forest had no books. No ink, no parchment, no written language. Instead they had the trees. And the weirwoods above all. When they died, they went into the wood, into leaf and limb and root, and the trees remembered. All their songs and spells, their histories and prayers, everything they knewabout his world. Maesters will tell you that the weirwoods are sacred to the old gods. The singers believe they are the old gods. When singers die they become part of that godhood."

George R. R. Martin

The Light That Brings The Dawn

"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all nights to come."

George R. R. Martin em A Song Of Ice And Fire