“Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.”

“Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.”

“Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.”

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

“The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.- Lord Commander Mormont”

“Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.”