Davos Seaworth and Stannis Baratheon in “Unfinished Business”

Davos Seaworth

Forty horses died in the night. We'll lose more, come sunset. We're runnnin' out of food, we can't open the supply line until the snow clears.

Stannis Baratheon

What else?

Davos Seaworth

The Stormcrows rode off last night.

Stannis Baratheon

Five hundred men. Sellswords - loyal to nothing but gold.

Davos Seaworth

We still have a hard march to Winterfell, and we have a hard march in this weather.

Stannis Baratheon

And?

Davos Seaworth

This isn't our time. We should head back to Castle Black, and when the snow clears...

Stannis Baratheon

I retreated from King's Landing, Ser Davos. If I retreat again, I become "the King who ran".

Davos Seaworth

Your Grace.

Stannis Baratheon

Winter is coming. Those aren't just the Stark words, that's a fact. If we march back to Castle Black, we winter at Castle Black and who can say how many years this winter will last?

Davos Seaworth

It's better to wait for the right time than risk everything.

Stannis Baratheon

This is the right time and I will risk everything, because if I don't, we've lost. We march to victory, or we march to defeat. But we go forward. Only forward.