“It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.”

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”

“It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?”

“A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.”

“I think he is a giant among us, here at the end of the world.”

“No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.”

“Only a fool would ever claim she was more beautiful than I. The world was full of fools, however.”