"It just could have made it easier for me," Jon said finally, letting the words hang between them for a moment before dropping it. When he was a small boy, too young to understand why Robb's mother couldn't be his mother the same as they shared a father and were brothers he had gone to Catelyn for comfort and had been swiftly rebuffed and put into his place as a bastard, an outcast and unwanted.

Wouldn't it have been better if he'd have been sent to the Citadel as a child to study as a Maester or to the Sept to become a Septon? Why let him grow up alongside his brothers and sisters and never have what they had? Why? Because of Lyanna?

"I never wanted to be Lord of Winterfell. I didn't want to be King in the North. They should have given it to Sansa."