Jon Snow – Character Quotes

— If it's a boy, we want to name him "Jon."
— I hope it's a girl.

— Love is more powerful than reason. We all know that. Look at my brother.
— "Love is the death of duty."
— You just came up with that?
— Maester Aemon said it a long time ago.
— Sometimes duty is the death of love.

— I heard it was best to keep your enemies close.
— Whoever said that didn't have many enemies.

I'm not gonna swear an oath I can't uphold. Talk about my father if you want. Tell me that's the attitude that got him killed. But when enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies. And lies won't help us in this fight.

— I always wanted to do the right thing. Be the right kind of person. But never knew what that meant. It's always seemed like there was... Like there was an impossible choice I had to make. Stark or Greyjoy.
— Our father was more of a father to you than yours ever was. And you betrayed him. Betrayed his memory.
— I did.
— But you never lost him. He's a part of you. Just like he's a part of me.
— But the things I've done...
— It's not my place to forgive you for all of it. But what I can forgive, I do. You don't need to choose. You're a Greyjoy and you're a Stark.

So what's the point in serving a god if none of us knows what he wants?

— We have to know what we're fighting for. I'm not fighting so some man or woman I barely know can sit on a throne made of swords.
— So, what are you fighting for?
— Life. Death is the enemy. The first enemy, and the last.

— Our fathers trusted each other. Why shouldn't we?
— I saw your father once at Winterfell.
— I met yours. In my shop.
— You're a lot leaner.
— And you're a lot shorter.
— I grew up on stories about them.
— All I ever knew was that they fought together, and won.

— How many queens are there now?
— Two.
— And you need to convince the one with the dragons, or the one who fucks her brother?
— Both.

Jon Snow: — We're all on the same side.
Gendry: — How can we be?
Jon Snow: — We're all breathing.

I never thought that dragons would exist again. No one did. The people who follow you know that you made something impossible happen. Maybe that helps them believe that you can make other impossible things happen. Build a world that's different from the shit one they've always known. But if you use them to melt castles and burn cities, you're not different. You're just more of the same.