You know the first rule of combat? Shoot them before they shoot you.
If we’re going to die anyway, then it’s better to die fighting than to do nothing!
While bigger it is the fight, bigger it will be the victory.
You can't evade an attack outside of your awareness.
Light and empty as the air so alluringly full of marine tang and sun-soaked vegetation, he drifted for a while on the wings of a different kind of freedom: the relief of relinquishing his mandate to fight her, the peace of losing a long, incredibly bloody war and finding the surrender far sweeter than the battles.
— I'll gladly give my life.
— I don't want you to be glad about it. I want you to curse and fight until your heart's done pumping. And know this, boy. Your death will be a gift for them south of the Wall. They'll never know what you've done. They'll never know how you died. They won't even know your damn name. But they'll be alive because some nameless bastard north of the Wall gave his life for theirs.
The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
You don't parley when you're on the back foot.
The struggles I'm facin’
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down but
No I'm not breakin’
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most yeah
Just gotta keep going