“Even dreams cannot live up here.”

“We all dream of things we cannot have.”

“Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.”

“They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.”

“Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.”

“It was bitingly cold up here, and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.”

“The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.”