A couple quotes you can skip if you already know all about this. AbeBooks: Not many of your characters are free from sin, in many ways, which is interesting.
George: I wanted to affect a certain human reality. I prefer to paint with shades of grey. We do good things and the next day we maybe do terrible things. We all have good and evil in us and there are very few pure paragons and there are very few orcs. Sure, they may have superficial failings, but nothing that we really care about or judge them for. How about Davos Seaworth? After all, the books were written for people raised in the same world that produced Han Solo.
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Nor, I suspect, will Davos prove to be merely nominally grey. From Westeros. They said she went to pray for her first husband, her true husband, who had been lost at sea when she was a girl no older than Lanna. Her love is dead , I could taste that in her blood. If he ever should come back to her, it will be a corpse. She was good that way, and quick to laugh as well, but Cat thought there was something sad about her too. When Dareon had first appeared at the Happy Port, Arya had almost asked if he would take her with him back to Eastwatch, until she heard him telling Bethany that he was never going back.
How could I ever leave you? Every night Davos went to sleep with those words in his head, and every morn he woke to them. And should he forget, Garth was always pleased to remind him. Dead man was his name for Davos. Robett Glover filled a wine cup and offered it to Davos. He took it, sniffed it, drank. Your head and hands were mounted above the Seal Gate, with your face turned so your eyes looked out across the harbor.
By now you are well rotted , though we dipped your head in tar before we set it upon the spike. Carrion crows and seabirds squabbled over your eyes, they say. Some Dothraki horselord cut his head off.
