The Watchers on the Wall

Game of Thrones 4×9

& Sam: ...she never offered.
    Jon Snow: But if she had, you would have? You’d have broken your vows?
    Sam: The interesting thing is... our vows never specifically forbid intimate relations with women... “I shall take no wife,” yes, that’s in there. There’s no denying that. “I shall father no children.” It’s very specific. But what do our vows have to say about other... activities is open to interpretation.

& Sam: So what’s it like?
    Jon Snow: It’s... there’s this person, this whole other person. And you’re wrapped up in them and they’re wrapped up in you. And you— for a little— for a little while, you’re more than just you. You’re— I don’t know. I’m not a bleeding poet.
    Sam: No, you’re really not.

& Ygritte: I know you never fucked a bear. You know you never fucked a bear. Right now I don’t want to think about the bear you never fucked. Right now all I want to think about is each one of these arrows finding its way into a crow’s heart.

& Maester Aemon: Thousands of books and no eyes to read them... Old age is a wonderful source of ironies if nothing else.

& Maester Aemon: We could spend all night trading tales of lost loves. Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.

& Gilly: I know there’s no women allowed...
    Sam: Anyone who tries to throw you out will be having words with me. From now on... wherever you go... I go, too.

& Ser Alliser: Do you know what leadership means, Lord Snow?.. It means that the person in charge gets second-guessed by every clever little twat with a mouth. But if he starts second-guessing himself, that’s the end— for him, for the clever little twats, for everyone.

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& Sam: I am a man of the Night’s Watch, Gilly. I made a promise to defend the Wall and I have to keep it because that’s what men do.

& Pyp: If you’re afraid of a band of wildlings, how in seven hells did you manage to kill a white walker?
    Sam: I didn’t know I was going to kill it. But I had to do something. I didn’t have any choice. It was going to kill Gilly and take the baby. If someone had asked me my name right then, I wouldn’t have known. I wasn’t Samwell Tarly anymore. I wasn’t a steward in the Night’s Watch or son of Randyll Tarly or any of that. I was nothing at all. And when you’re nothing at all, there’s no more reason to be afraid.
    Pyp: But you’re afraid now?
    Sam: Yes, well... I’m not nothing anymore.

& Pyp: I got one right through the heart! He’s dead.
    Sam: Oh, is it over?
    Pyp: No.
    Sam: Well, then...

& Grenn: The gods aren’t down here. It’s the six of us. You hear me? Night gathers and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands...
    — ...father no children. I shall wear no crown and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch for this night and all the nights to come!

& Ygritte: You know nothing, Jon Snow.

& Edd: Don’t cheer too loud. They still outnumber us 1,000 to one.

& Sam: They won’t just kill you. They’ll boil you. They’ll flay you. They’ll make it last days.
    Jon Snow: You’re right. It’s a bad plan... What’s your plan?
    Sam: ......

& Sam: Jon... Come back.

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