You're mine and I'm yours. And if we die, we die, but first we'll live.

The line fuses romantic possession (“You’re mine and I’m yours”) with a stark acceptance of mortality (“if we die, we die”), then pivots to defiance: life and love are to be seized before fate closes in. It encapsulates a recurring Martin theme—characters living under constant threat, where intimacy becomes both refuge and rebellion. The final clause (“but first we’ll live”) reframes fatalism as resolve: death may be inevitable, but it does not get to dictate the terms of the present. The quote’s power lies in its compressed movement from commitment, to risk, to chosen vitality.