“There are things to be learned even from the dead.”

“Old Nan nodded. ‘In that darkness, the Others came for the first time,’ she said as her needles went click, click, click. ‘They were cold things, dead things, that hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins. They swept over holdfasts and cities and kingdoms, felled heroes and armies by the score, riding their pale dead horses and leading hosts of the slain. All the swords of men could not stay their advance, and even maidens and suckling babes found no pity in them. They hunted the maids through frozen forests, and fed their dead servants on the flesh of human children.’ (p240)”

“...and some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.”

“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.”

“Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.”

“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.”

“Do dead man dream?The dead themselves are silent on the matter”