George R. R. Martin

"Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse, unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season."--

A Song of Ice and Fire

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Rachael Bahr

...but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her “little sister.” She'd tell him, “I missed you,” and he'd say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.

fira

They are not strong, she told herself, so I must be their strength. I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt. However frightened my heart, when they look upon my face they must see only Drogo's queen. She felt older than her fourteen years. If ever she had truly been a girl, that time was done. 

“Ten years a wolf, and you land here and think to prince about the islands, but you know nothing and and no one. Why should men fight and die for you?”

“I am their lawful prince,” Theon said stiffly. 

“By the laws of the green lands, you might be. But we make our own laws here, or have you you forgotten?”

winterfell and the starks are never beating the jawa kejawen allegations

He remembered their godswood; the tall sentinels armored in their grey-green needles, the great oaks, the hawthorn and ash and soldier pines, and at the center the heart tree standing like some pale giant frozen in time. He could almost smell the place, earthy and brooding, the smell of centuries, and he remembered how dark the wood had been even by day. 

That wood was Winterfell. It was the north. I never felt so out of place as I did when I walked there, so much an unwelcome intruder. 

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