A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

by George R.R. Martin

“Knowledge is a weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.

Well put George R.R. Martin :)

Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

“So young,” said Wyman Manderly. “Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived, he would have grown up to be a Frey.”

“Ten more years should do it,” Tollett replied in his usual gloomy tone. “Place was overrun with rats when we moved in. The spearwives killed the nasty buggers. Now the place is overrun with spearwives. There’s days I want the rats back.”

I have my swords, thought Jon Snow, and we are coming for you, Bastard.