I have always been a dark writer.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.