There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.
it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.
This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.
