Winter is coming.

George R. R. Martin · A Game of Thrones (1996), motto of House Stark

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

George R. R. Martin · A Game of Thrones (1996), spoken by Eddard Stark

Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

George R. R. Martin · The source reads: “My grandmother always used to say, "Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."” · A saying in Westeros, from A Feast for Crows.

More Quotes from Books

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Clement of Alexandria · The Stromata (Miscellanies), bk. 1

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you.

L. M. Montgomery · Anne Shirley's answer when Gilbert Blythe, finally accepted after years of waiting, warns her that a doctor's wife will see no "diamond sunbursts and marble halls"; the book prints YOU in capitals.