Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Nothing burns like the cold.

Winter is coming.

These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.