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He won't be a boy forever. And winter is coming.
— Game of Thrones • 2011
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is Ned's whole philosophy in one sentence: a boy raised in the North must learn what duty costs before the hard years arrive, and the family motto is a warning rather than a boast. Fans remember it as the series' first spoken use of the phrase that became its slogan,.
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In context
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In the first episode of Game of Thrones, "Winter Is Coming" (2011), a guardsman rides into Winterfell to report that a deserter from the Night's Watch has been caught. Lord Eddard Stark orders his horses saddled and tells his steward to fetch ten-year-old Bran too, because the man swore an oath. His wife Catelyn objects that ten is too young to see such things, and Ned answers with this line. Bran watches as Ned beheads the deserter, Will, who had warned of the White Walkers. The words are also those of House Stark.
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- Wikiquote: Game of Thrones/Season 1, Winter is Comingsection Winter is Coming [1.01]Reference checked
- Wikipedia: Winter Is ComingPlot, In the NorthReference checked
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