Ygritte förklarar hur destruktiva förhållanden borde hanteras

Jon caught her wrist. “What if the man who stole you drank too much?” he insisted. “What if he was brutal or cruel?” He tightened his grip to make a point. “What if he was stronger than you, and liked to beat you bloody?”

“I’d cut his throat while he slept. You know nothing, Jon Snow.” Ygritte twisted like an eel and wrenched away from him. <...> “A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife,” Ygritte told him, “but no man can own both.”

- Ygritte upplyser Jon Snow, in George R R Martin´s "A Storm of Swords". Snart är det dags.