“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

“Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.”

“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.”

“She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into...”