“None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said.'For knighthood?''For death.”
“Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.”
“Bronn himself, who’d only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, “They’ll kill for that knighthood, but don’t ever think they’ll die for it.”Tyrion had no such delusion.”
“Hello again, I said to death. I was resigned, if not ready.”
“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.”
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”