"He did not understand why Lyanna should be writing Stannis, and could not help but wonder if the girl’s answer might have been different if the letter had been sealed with a direwolf instead of a crowned stag, and signed by Jon Stark, Lord of Winterfell. It is too late for such misgivings. You made your choice."

"Burning dead children had ceased to trouble Jon Snow; live ones were another matter. Two kings to wake the dragon. The father first and then the son, so both die kings."

"Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK."

"Once they had been six, five whimpering blind in the snow beside their dead mother, sucking cool milk from her hard dead nipples whilst he crawled off alone. Four remained… and one the white wolf could no longer sense."

"Women do not forget. Women do not forgive."

"Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears."

"Even those who lack a man’s parts may still have a man’s heart, Your Grace."

"

“I have no wish to die, I promise you. I have…” His voice trailed off into uncertainty. What do I have? A life to live? Work to do? Children to raise, lands to rule, a woman to love?

“You have nothing,” finished Magister Illyrio, “but we can change that.”

"

"I kill kings, hadn’t you heard? I want no royal leavings."

"So young,” said Wyman Manderly. “Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived, he would have grown up to be a Frey."