“Nothing someone says before the world 'but' really counts. - Benjen Stark”

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”

“Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.”

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”

“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

“In physics, energy has a very precise definition: it is what characterises something changing in the world surrounding us. [...] Counting energy is therefore nothing else than counting how much the world has changed.”

“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”

“Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”