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Gared
Will is a ranger on the Night’s Watch. He’s been on the Night’s Watch for four years. He spots the bodies of a group of wildlings on a trip beyond the Wall and brings Gared and Waymar Royce to investigate. The bodies are missing when they return to the scene. Will subsequently climbs a tree and witnesses the Others attacking Waymar Royce below. When Will descends from the tree, Waymar Royce, now an Other himself, kills him, ostensibly turning Will into one of the Others.
Will Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Will or refer to Will. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“It was the cold,” Gared said with iron certainty. “I saw men freeze last winter, and the one before, when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”
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Will Quotes in A Game of Thrones
The A Game of Thrones quotes below are all either spoken by Will or refer to Will. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Prologue
Quotes
“It was the cold,” Gared said with iron certainty. “I saw men freeze last winter, and the one before, when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”
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