Jon Snow quotes from Game of Thrones

Ygritte

Jon Snow.

Jon Snow

Hush. Don't talk.

Ygritte

You remember that cave? [Jon nods] We should have stayed in that cave.

Jon Snow

We'll go back there.

Ygritte

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

Samwell Tarly

We held them off.

Jon Snow

For one night.

Samwell Tarly

This is a great victory!

Jon Snow

Great victory? Mance was testing our defenses. He almost made it through. And, he has more giants, he has more mammoths; he has a thousand times as many men. They'll hit us again tonight. Maybe we can hold them off for a day or two, but we'll never beat them.

Samwell Tarly

Where are you going?

Jon Snow

I'm going to find Mance.

Samwell Tarly

To fi- you can't do that! No one gave you any orders!

Jon Snow

Who's left to give orders? The Wildling army is only an army because of Mance. He united a hundred warring tribes. Without Mance, they lose their leader, they lose their purpose, they go back to fighting each other, scatter back to their homes.

Samwell Tarly

Without Mance. You goin' to kill him?

Jon Snow

I'm gonna try.

Samwell Tarly

They'll never let you within a hundred yards of him! And even if they did, even if you managed to kill him...

Jon Snow

They'll kill me. But if I don't go, they'll kill me anyway. They'll kill the rest of us, too.

Samwell Tarly

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? [they find the last giant dead, surrounded by the bodies of Grenn and the other five Watchmen] They held the Gate. Get some brothers down here to help you. We need to burn the bodies. Raise the outer gate, then lower it again as soon as I'm out.

Samwell Tarly

[notices Jon unbuckling Longclaw from his belt] What're you doing?

Jon Snow

I promised Mormont I'd never lose it again. [hands the sword to Sam] In case I don't come back.

Samwell Tarly

Jon? Come back. [Jon gives him a sad smile and walks out beyond the Wall]

Stannis Baratheon

[stopping in front of Mance and Jon, to Mance] You're the "King Beyond the Wall"? [Mance nods] Do you know who I am?

Never had the pleasure.

Davos Seaworth

This is Stannis Baratheon, the one true King of the Seven Kingdoms.

We're not in the Seven Kingdoms, and you're not dressed for this weather.

Stannis Baratheon

[pause] It is customary to kneel when surrendering to a King. [long pause, then Mance smiles and shakes his head]

We do not kneel.

Stannis Baratheon

I'll have thousands of your men in chains by nightfall. I have nothing to feed them and nowhere to put them. I'm not here to slaughter beaten dogs. their fate depends on their King.

All the same, we do not kneel.

Stannis Baratheon

Take these men away.

Davos Seaworth

[to Jon] What's a man of the Night's Watch doing in a Wildling camp?

Jon Snow

I was sent to discuss terms with the King Beyond the Wall.

Davos Seaworth

You're speaking to the one true King, boy. You will address him as "Your Grace".

Jon Snow

I know he's the King. My father died for him. My name is Jon Snow, Your Grace. I'm Ned Stark's son.

Stannis Baratheon

Your father was an honorable man.

Jon Snow

He was, Your Grace.

Stannis Baratheon

What do you think he'd have done with him?

Jon Snow

I was this man's prisoner, once. He could've tortured me, he could've killed me... but instead he spared my life. I think my father would've taken him prisoner and listened to what he had to say.

Stannis Baratheon

Very well, then. [turns to Davos] Take him prisoner.

Jon Snow

Your Grace? [Stannis turns back to him] If my father had seen the things that I've seen, he'd also tell you to burn the dead before nightfall - all of them.

Jon Snow

Ser Alliser. You have more experience than any other Ranger at Castle Black. You proved your valor many times over, while defending the Wall from the Wildling attack. I name you First Ranger. Lord Janos. I'm giving you command of Greyguard.

Janos Slynt

Greyguard is a ruin.

Jon Snow

Yes, the fort is in a sorry state. Restore it as best you can. First builder Yarwick can spare ten men.

Janos Slynt

I was charged with the defense of King's Landing when you were soiling your swaddling-clothes. Keep your ruin.

Samwell Tarly

All right, all right! Enough of that!

Jon Snow

You mistake me, my Lord. That was a command, not an offer. Pack your arms and armor, say your farewells, and ride for Greyguard.

Janos Slynt

I will not go meekly off to freeze and die. Give it to one of the fools who cast a stone for you! I will not have it! Do you hear me, boy? I will not have it!

Jon Snow

Are you refusing to obey my order?

Janos Slynt

You can stick your order up your bastard arse.

Jon Snow

Take Lord Janos outside. Olly, bring me my sword.

Melisandre

Lord Commander.

Jon Snow

How can I help you?

Melisandre

Come with us when we ride south. None of us know the castle as well as you do. Its hidden tunnels, its weaknesses, its people. Winterfell was your home once. Don't you want to chase the rats out of it?

Jon Snow

Castle Black is my home now. The Night's Watch take no part in the wars of the Seven Kingdoms.

Melisandre

There's only one war. Life against death. Come. Let me show you what you're fighting for.

Jon Snow

You're gonna show me some visions in the fire. Forgive me my lady, I don't trust in visions.

Melisandre

No visions. No magic. Just life. [she pulls his hand under her robe] Do you feel my heart beating? There's power in you, you resist it and that's your mistake. Embrace it. The Lord of Light made us male and female. Two parts of a greater whole. You're not joining this power. Power to make life, power to make light, and power to cast shadows.

Jon Snow

I don't think Stannis would like that very much.

Melisandre

Then we shouldn't tell him.

Jon Snow

I can't.

Melisandre

Why?

Jon Snow

I swore a vow. I loved another.

Melisandre

The dead don't need lovers. Only the living.

Jon Snow

I know. But I still love her.

Melisandre

[Goes to the door before she turns back to Jon] "You know nothing, Jon Snow."

Lord Commander. It's one of the Wildlings you brought back. Says he knows your Uncle Benjen. Says he's still alive.

Jon Snow

Are you sure he's talking about Benjen?

Said he was First Ranger. Said he knows where to find him.

Alliser Thorne

Man says he saw your uncle at Hardhome at the last full moon.

Jon Snow

Could be lying.

Alliser Thorne

Could be. There are ways to find out.

Jon Snow

Where is he?

Alliser Thorne

Over there.

Alliser Thorne

For the Watch.

For the Watch.

For the Watch.

For the Watch.

For the Watch.

Jon Snow

Olly...

For the Watch.

Davos Seaworth

Easy, easy! Easy.

Davos Seaworth

What do you remember?

Jon Snow

They stabbed me. Olly... he put a knife in my heart. I shouldn't be here.

Davos Seaworth

The Lady brought you back.

Melisandre

Afterwards... after they stabbed you, after you died. Where did you go? What did you see?

Jon Snow

Nothing. There was nothing at all.

Melisandre

The Lord let you come back for a reason. Stannis was not the Prince who was Promised, but someone has to be.

Davos Seaworth

Could you give us a moment? [Melisandre leaves] You were dead...and now you're not. And it's completely fucking mad, seems to me. I can only imagine how it seems to you.

Jon Snow

I did what I thought was right. And I got murdered for it. Now I'm back. Why?

Davos Seaworth

I don't know. Maybe we'll never know. What does it matter? You go on. You fight as long as you can, you clean up as much of the shit as you can.

Jon Snow

I don't know how to do that. I thought I did, but... I failed.

Davos Seaworth

Good. Now, go fail again.

Jon Snow

If you have any last words, now is the time.

You shouldn't be alive. It's not right.

Jon Snow

Neither was killing me.

My mother's still living at White Harbor. Could you write her? Tell her I died fighting the wildlings.

Alliser Thorne

I had a choice, Lord Commander. Betray you or betray the Night's Watch. You brought an army of wildlings into our lands. [looks to the wildlings] An army of murderers and raiders. If I had to do it all over knowing where I'd end up, I pray I'd make the right choice again.

Jon Snow

I'm sure you would, Ser Alliser.

Alliser Thorne

I fought. I lost. Now I rest. But you, Lord Snow, you'll be fighting their battles forever.

Eddison Tollett

We should burn the bodies.

Jon Snow

You should.

Eddison Tollett

What do you want me to do with this?

Jon Snow

Wear it. Burn it. Whatever you want. You have Castle Black. My watch is ended.

Sansa Stark

It's good soup. Do you remember those kidney pies Old Nan used to make?

Jon Snow

With the peas and onions. We never should have left Winterfell.

Sansa Stark

Don't you wish we could go back to the day we left? I want to scream at myself, "Don't go, you idiot!"

Jon Snow

How could we know?

Sansa Stark

I spent a lot of time thinking about what an ass I was to you. I wish I could change everything.

Jon Snow

We were children.

Sansa Stark

I was awful, just admit it.

Jon Snow

You were occasionally awful. I'm sure I can't have been great fun always sulking in the corner while the rest of you played.

Sansa Stark

Do you forgive me?

Jon Snow

There's nothing to forgive.

Sansa Stark

Forgive me.

Jon Snow

Alright, alright, I forgive you.

Jon Snow

You'd think after thousands of years the Night's Watch would learn how to make a good ale.

Sansa Stark

Mm. Where will you go?

Jon Snow

Where will we go? If I don't watch over you, father's ghost would come back and murder me.

Sansa Stark

Where will we go?

Jon Snow

I can't stay here after what happened.

Sansa Stark

There's only one place we can go: home.

Jon Snow

Well, should we tell the Boltons to pack up and leave?

Sansa Stark

We'll take it back from them.

Jon Snow

I don't have an army.

Sansa Stark

How many wildlings did you save?

Jon Snow

They didn't come here to serve me.

Sansa Stark

They owe you their lives. Think they'll be safe here if Roose Bolton remains Warden of the North?

Jon Snow

Sansa...

Sansa Stark

Winterfell is our home. It's ours. And Arya's and Bran's and Rickon's. Wherever they are, we have to fight for it.

Jon Snow

I'm tired of fighting! It's all I've done since I've left home! I've killed brothers of the Night's Watch, I've killed wildlings, I've killed men I admire, I hung a boy younger than Bran! I fought...and I lost.

Sansa Stark

If you don't take back the North, we'll never be safe. I want you to help me, but I'll do it myself if I have to.

Jon Snow

[reading a letter from Ramsay] "To the traitor and bastard Jon Snow, you allowed thousands of wildlings past the Wall, you have betrayed your own kind, you have betrayed the North. Winterfell is mine, bastard. Come and see. Your brother Rickon is in my dungeon. His direwolf's skin is on my floor. Come and see. I want my bride back. Send her to me, bastard, and I will not trouble you or your wildling lovers. Keep her from me, and I will ride North and slaughter every wildling man, woman, and babe living under your protection. You will watch as I skin them living."

Sansa Stark

Go on.

Jon Snow

It's just more of the same.

Sansa Stark

"You will watch as my soldiers take turns raping your sister, you will watch as my dogs devour your wild little brother, then I will spoon your eyes from their sockets and let my dogs do the rest. Come and see. Ramsay Bolton, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North."

Jon Snow

Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North?

Sansa Stark

His father's dead. Ramsay killed him and now he has Rickon.

Jon Snow

We don't know that.

Sansa Stark

Yes we do.

Tormund Giantsbane

How many men does he have in his army?

Sansa Stark

I heard him say 5,000 once when he was talking about Stannis' attack.

Jon Snow

How many do you have?

Tormund Giantsbane

That can march and fight? 2,000. The rest are children and old people.

Sansa Stark

You're the son of the last true Warden of the North. Northern families are loyal, they'll fight for you if you ask. A monster has taken our home and our brother. We have to go back to Winterfell and save them both.

Jon Snow

[to Sansa] You don't have to be here.

Sansa Stark

Yes I do.

My beloved wife. I have missed you terribly. [to Jon] Thank you, for returning Lady Bolton safely. Now, dismount and kneel before me. Surrender your army, and proclaim me the true Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. I will pardon you for deserting the Night's Watch, I will pardon these treasonous Lords for betraying my House. Come, bastard. You don't have the men, you don't have the horses. And you don't have Winterfell! Why lead those poor souls into slaughter? There's no need for a battle. Get off your horse... and kneel. [smirks] I am a man of mercy.

Jon Snow

You're right. There's no need for a battle. Thousands of men don't need to die. Only one of us. Let's end this the old way. You, against me.

I keep hearing stories about you, bastard. The way people in the North talk about you, you're the greatest swordsman who ever walked! Maybe you are that good, maybe not. I don't know if I'd beat you, but I know that my army will beat yours. I have six thousand men, you have...what? Half that? Not even?

Jon Snow

[smiles] Aye, you have the numbers. Will your men want to fight for you, when they hear you wouldn't fight for them?

[to Sansa] He's good. Very good. Tell me, will you let your little brother die because you're too proud to surrender?

Sansa Stark

How do we know you have him?

Now, if you want to sa––

Sansa Stark

You're going to die tomorrow, Lord Bolton. [the conviction in Sansa's voice momentarily stuns Ramsey] Sleep well. [she rides away]

[smiles] She's a fine woman, your sister. I look forward to having her back in my bed. And you're all fine-looking men. [laughs] My dogs are desperate to meet you. I haven't fed them for seven days, they're ravenous! I wonder which parts they'll try first? Your eyes? Your balls! We'll find out soon enough. In the morning, then... bastard.

Jon Snow

What is that?

Davos Seaworth

Tell him! Tell him who it belonged to.

Melisandre

The Princess Shireen.

Davos Seaworth

Tell him what you did to her! TELL HIM!

Melisandre

We burnt her at the stake.

Davos Seaworth

[tearfully] Why?

Melisandre

The army was trapped, the horses were dying! It was the only way.

Davos Seaworth

You burned a little girl alive!

Melisandre

I only do what my Lord commands me!

Davos Seaworth

If he commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil!

Melisandre

We are standing here because of him. Jon Snow is alive because the Lord willed it.

Davos Seaworth

I loved that girl! Like she was my own! She was good, she was kind and you killed her!

Melisandre

So did her father. So did her mother. Her own blood knew it was the only way!

Davos Seaworth

The only way for what?! They all died anyway! You told everyone Stannis was the one, you had him believing it, all of them fooled, and you lied!

Melisandre

I didn't lie! I was wrong.

Davos Seaworth

Aye. You were wrong. How many died because you were wrong? [to Jon] I ask your leave to execute this woman for murder. She admits to the crime.

Jon Snow

Do you have anything to say for yourself?

Melisandre

I've been ready to die for many years. If the Lord was done with me, so be it, but he's not. You've seen the Night King, Jon Snow. You know the great war is still to come. You know the army of the dead will be upon us soon. And you know I can help you win that war.

Jon Snow

[stares at Melisandre for a moment] Ride south today. If you return to the North, I'll have you hanged as a murderer.

Davos Seaworth

If you ever come back this way, I'll execute you myself!

Jon Snow

I'm having the lord's chamber prepared for you.

Sansa Stark

Mother and Father's room? You should take it.

Jon Snow

I'm not a Stark.

Sansa Stark

You are to me.

Jon Snow

You're the Lady of Winterfell. You deserve it. We're standing here because of you. The battle was lost until the Knights of the Vale rode in. They came because of you. You told me Lord Baelish sold you to the Boltons.

Sansa Stark

He did.

Jon Snow

And you trust him?

Sansa Stark

[chuckles] Only a fool would trust Littlefinger. I should have told you about him, about the Knights of the Vale. I'm sorry.

Jon Snow

We need to trust each other. We can't fight a war amongst ourselves. We have so many enemies now. [starts to walk away]

Sansa Stark

Jon. A raven came from the Citadel. A white raven...Winter is here.

Jon Snow

[smiles and looks to the sky] Well, Father always promised, didn't he?

Yohn Royce

You can't expect the Knights of the Vale to side with Wildling invaders!

Tormund Giantsbane

We didn't invade. We were invited.

Yohn Royce

Not by me.

Jon Snow

The Free Folk, the Northerners and the Knights of the Vale fought together. We fought bravely and we won. My father used to say, "We find our true friends on the battlefield."

The Boltons are defeated. The war is over! Winter has come. If the Maesters are right, it'll be the coldest one in a thousand years. We should ride home, and wait out the coming storms.

Jon Snow

The war is not over. And I promise you, friend, the true enemy won't wait out the storm. He brings the storm.

Your son was butchered at the Red Wedding, Lord Manderly, but you refused the call. You swore allegiance to House Stark, Lord Glover but in their hour of greatest need, you refused the call. And you, Lord Cerwyn. Your father was skinned alive by Ramsay Bolton. Still, you refused the call. But House Mormont remembers. The North remembers! We know no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark. I don't care if he's a bastard. Ned Stark's blood runs through his veins. He's my King, from this day until his last day!

Lady Mormont speaks harshly... and truly. My son died for Robb Stark, the Young Wolf. I didn't think we'd find another King, in my lifetime. I didn't commit my men to your cause... because, I didn't want more Manderlys dying for nothing. But, I was wrong. Jon Snow avenged the Red Wedding! He is the White Wolf. [draws his sword and kneels to Jon] The King in the North!

I did not fight beside you in the field. And will regret that until my dying day. A man... can only admit when he was wrong, and ask forgiveness.

Jon Snow

There's nothing to forgive, my Lord.

There will be more fights to come. House Glover will stand behind House Stark, as we have for a thousand years! And I will stand behind Jon Snow. [draws his sword and raises to Jon] The King in the North! [kneels as all the other Lords cheer, rise and draw their blades]

THE KING IN THE NORTH! THE KING IN THE NORTH! THE KING IN THE NORTH! THE KING IN THE NORTH! THE KING IN THE NORTH!

Jon Snow

You are my sister, but I am King, now.

Sansa Stark

Will you start wearing a crown?

Jon Snow

When you question my decisions in front of the other Lords and Ladies, you undermine me!

Sansa Stark

So I can't question your decisions anymore?!

Jon Snow

Of course you can! But-

Sansa Stark

Joffrey never let anyone question his authority. You think he was a good King?

Jon Snow

Do you think I'm Joffrey?

Sansa Stark

You're as far from Joffrey as anyone I've ever met.

Jon Snow

Thank you.

Sansa Stark

You're good at this, you know.

Jon Snow

At what?

Sansa Stark

At ruling.

Jon Snow

No.

Sansa Stark

You are! You are. They respect you, they really do, but... [Jon smirks] Why are you laughing?

Jon Snow

What did Father use to say? "Everything before the word 'but' is horse-shit."

Sansa Stark

He never said that to me.

Jon Snow

No. No, he never cursed in front of his girls.

Sansa Stark

Because he was trying to protect us. He never wanted us to see how dirty the world really is, but... Father couldn't protect me, and neither could you. So stop trying.

Jon Snow

All right. I'll stop trying to protect you, and you stop trying to undermine me.

Sansa Stark

I'm not trying to undermine you! You have to be smarter than Father. You need to be smarter than Robb. I loved them, I miss them both, but they made stupid mistakes, and they lost their heads for it!

Jon Snow

And how should I be smarter? By listening to you?

Sansa Stark

Would that be so terrible?

A raven from King's Landing, Your Grace.

Jon Snow

"Cersei of House Lannister, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms..."

Sansa Stark

What does she want?

Jon Snow

"Come to King's Landing. Bend the knee, or suffer the fate of all traitors."

Sansa Stark

You've been so consumed with the enemy to the north that you've forgotten about the one to the south.

Jon Snow

I'm concerned with the Night King because I've seen him. And, believe me, you'd think of little else if you had, too.

Sansa Stark

We still have a Wall between us and the Night King; there's nothing between us and Cersei.

Jon Snow

There's a thousand miles between us and Cersei. Winter is here, the Lannisters are a southern army. They've never ranged this far North.

Sansa Stark

You're the military man but I know her. If you're her enemy, she'll never stop until she's destroyed you. Everyone who's ever crossed her, she's found a way to murder.

Jon Snow

You almost sound as if you admire her.

Sansa Stark

I learned a great deal from her.