Imagine reading the gods have fashioned us for love quote and thinking asoiaf is nihilist or grimdark .... embarrassing lack of reading comprehension
What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
yes these sound like the words of a man who believes humans are evil and war is endless and the world is doomed. I can read why do you ask

